Polakiewicz Moszek

Polakiewicz Moszek received transit visa no. 2021 at the Japanese consulate in Kaunas on 20 August 1940. The register records lawyer, aged 37.

What the register records

Nationality as recorded

Polish

Age in 1940

37

Occupation

Lawyer

Family, per the Kitade-Bluman list

wife Amelia (26)

The journey

Reached Japan; registered in Kobe for USA.

Travelled with, and never given a number

• Amelia — wife, aged 26

The register recorded visa holders. It did not reliably record the wives and children who travelled on somebody else’s visa, so these people have no entry of their own and cannot be searched for. Where the archive has recovered a name, it is here.

Where this comes from

• The JEWCOM register — the refugee register kept by the Refugee Committee of the Jewish Community of Kobe (Ashkenazim) at No. 6 Yamamoto-dori, 1-chome, whose cable address was 'JEWCOM Kobe'. Eighty-four pages on the committee's own printe…
  Entry 129 of the Kobe Jewish Community's refugee register: aged 38, born at Warsaw, a lawyer, who arrived in Japan on 25 January 1941; left for the USA on 25 January 1941.
• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, Holocaust Survivors and Victims Database — the Flight and Rescue electronic dataset (source 20725): USHMM's own transcription of the Kaunas register, 2,140 persons with citizenship, visa type, iss…
  USHMM Flight and Rescue dataset: arrived in Japan 13 Jan 1941 (line 2021)
• "California, San Francisco, Passenger Lists, 1893-1953", FamilySearch — index entry for Moszek Polakiewicz, 1941: born about 1904, Poland. Digitised from NARA microfilm publication M1410 (passenger lists of vessels arriving at San Franci…
  FamilySearch's index of the San Francisco passenger lists, read by the archive on 20 September 2026, has Moszek Polakiewicz, born about 1904 in Poland, arriving at San Francisco in 1941. The register's compiled line gives 1903, and the two are 1 year apart. The name occurs once on the register, and a Polish-born passenger landing at San Francisco in 1941 fits the route through Japan, so the entry is taken as this person's under the archive's rule of 19 September 2026 for records from the route.
• Manifest of alien passengers, SS President Taft, sailing from Kobe, Japan, January 1941 (day partly hidden, probably 23), arrived San Francisco date not read (US National Archives, M1410, film 367; read on FamilySearch's copy)
  Moszek Polakiewicz, a 37-year-old lawyer from Warsaw, sailed from Kobe on the President Taft early in 1941 with his wife Amalia, 26, bound for New York, according to the passenger manifest held by the US National Archives (FamilySearch's copy). The manifest gives his relative left behind as J. Polakiewicz of Zawalna Street, Vilnius.

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