Mordka Poznanski

Mordka Poznanski received transit visa no. 203 at the Japanese consulate in Kaunas on 30 July 1940. The register records clerk, aged 31.

What the register records

Nationality as recorded

Polnisch

Age in 1940

31

Occupation

Clerk

Family, per the Kitade-Bluman list

husband of #1617

The journey

Reached Japan; reached Shanghai; aided by the Polish ambassador Tadeusz Romer; registered in Kobe for Burma.

Where this comes from

• List of Refugees, Vilna, 1940 — JDC Archives, New York, collection AR 33/44, file 00876. The contemporary register of Polish Jewish refugees in Lithuania, running to more than nine thousand numbered entries; the fullest independent check…
  The 1940 Vilna refugee list has, at entry 7342, Mordka Poznanski, born 1909 at Bransk, who had come from Lodz; the year agrees with the register's compiled age.
• 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 535 of the Kobe Jewish Community's refugee register: aged 32, born at Konskie, a clerk, who arrived in Japan on 13 February 1941.
• The Shanghai Ledger — register of Polish citizens kept by the Consulate of Poland in Shanghai, 1934-1943 (original at the Archives of the Polish Ministry of Foreign Affairs, ref. 43/2003; digitised by the Library of Congress; indexed as…
  Registered with the Polish Consulate in Shanghai (ledger entry 1015); the names closely match this register line — approved by the owner's review, 19 Aug 2026 — the ledger reads: Poznanski Mordka, private clerk, born 25 September 1909 Konskie, married — wife ESTERA ROJZA born 23 January 1908 (the register's No.1617); registered 14 May 1941; 50 Ward Road, house 28; passport P-76 (Ser. I 734113) issued by the Shanghai consulate.
• 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 Feb 1941 (line 203)
• JDC Archives, New York, collection AR 33/44 file 53 (the Jewish Community of Kobe's returns to the JDC, 1941; Set I, item 00761) — Set I pp. 24–32 — April 1941 (and a May continuation sheet)
  He left Japan for Shanghai on the Kobe Maru, from Kobe, 5 April 1941 (the Jewish Community of Kobe's list of refugees who left Japan for Shanghai, April 1941 (JDC Archives, AR 33/44 file 53)). The list reads: "Poznanski Mordka, ″ Estera". (Kobe Maru, Kobe, 5 April 1941, Shanghai.)

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