Jozef Akawie

Jozef Akawie received transit visa no. 204 at the Japanese consulate in Kaunas on 30 July 1940. The register records manufacturer, aged 37.

What the register records

Nationality as recorded

Polnisch

Age in 1940

37

Occupation

Manufacturer

The journey

Reached Japan; reached Shanghai; registered in Kobe for USA.

Where this comes from

• The Kobe relatives list — refugees at Kobe in 1941 recorded with their relatives abroad. Seventy-six pages in numbered sheets (LIST No. 7, No. 16 and others), each line giving a name, age, birthplace, occupation and citizenship, and then…
  Entry 2 of the Kobe community's list of refugees and their relatives abroad: born 1903 at Lodz, Polish; relatives abroad: a brother, Sz. Akawie, 28 Bialik, Tel Aviv; an uncle, Akawie, Bronx, New York.
• 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 62 of the Kobe Jewish Community's refugee register: aged 38, born at Lodz, a manufacturer, who arrived in Japan from Vilnius 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 1049) — the consulate's register of Polish citizens who reached the city, 1934-1943 — the ledger reads: Akawie Jozef, trader, born 14 April 1903 Lodz, single; registered 5 June 1941; c/o Jerzy Szapiro, 1831 Avenue Joffre, flat 3, tel. 74087; on a passport issued by the Polish Consulate in DANZIG 19 November 1935, extended in Danzig 1938-39, Warsaw 1939, and by the British Legation in Kaunas 9 November 1939 and 24 July 1940.
• 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 204)
• La-karov ve-la-rachok, 21 March 1946 — the Far Eastern Palestine Committee's list of Jewish refugees in Shanghai (National Library of Israel, Historical Jewish Press)
  The Far Eastern Palestine Committee's list of Jewish refugees in Shanghai, printed by the Jewish Agency Search Bureau's bulletin La-karov ve-la-rachok on 21 March 1946, lists Jozef Akawie: born 1903 at Lodz, in the paper trade, arrived in 1941 from Wilna; the year and the town agree with the Kobe Jewish community's refugee register, the Kobe community's list of refugees and their relatives (National Library of Israel, Historical Jewish Press).

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