Litewka Julko

Litewka Julko received transit visa no. 2043 at the Japanese consulate in Kaunas on 20 August 1940. The register records sec of leather union, aged 29.

What the register records

Nationality as recorded

Polish

Age in 1940

29

Occupation

Sec Of Leather Union

Family, per the Kitade-Bluman list

husband of #1692

The journey

Reached Japan; aided by the Polish ambassador Tadeusz Romer; registered in Kobe for USA.

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 111 of the Kobe Jewish Community's refugee register: aged 30, born at Podgorze, a clerk.
• 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 25 Jan 1941 (line 2043)
• "California, San Francisco, Passenger Lists, 1893-1953", FamilySearch — index entry for Julko Litewka, 1941: born about 1912, Poland. Digitised from NARA microfilm publication M1410 (passenger lists of vessels arriving at San Francisco).…
  FamilySearch's index of the San Francisco passenger lists, read by the archive on 20 September 2026, has Julko Litewka, born about 1912 in Poland, arriving at San Francisco in 1941. The register's compiled line gives 1911, 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 Nitta Maru, sailing from Yokohama 20 March 1941, arrived San Francisco 1 April 1941 (US National Archives, M1410, film 368; read on FamilySearch's copy)
  He reached San Francisco on 1 April 1941 aboard the Nitta Maru from Yokohama, travelling with his wife on a United States visitor's visa issued at Yokohama on 18 March 1941; the manifest gives his birthplace as Podgórze, his calling as secretary of the leather workers' union in Warsaw, and his destination as New York, where he was to join David Dubinsky at 175 East Broadway, his passage paid by the Federation of Labor (manifest held by the US National Archives, read on FamilySearch's copy).
• The Jewish Week (New York), 9 March 1990 (National Library of Israel, Historical Jewish Press)
  A possible record, not yet confirmed as this person: the Jewish Week of New York, 9 March 1990, names Julko Litewka among six leaders of Yiddish secular culture who were to travel to Poland and the Soviet Union under the Workmen's Circle, and describes him as representing the Jewish Labor Bund. The register's Julko Litewka, who reached San Francisco in April 1941, was secretary of the leather workers' union in Warsaw, a calling close to the Bund. The Forverts of 31 March 1975 also records a "Yulke Litevke" elected to office in a Workmen's Circle branch in New York. The given name and surname are rare and occur once on the register, but the notices give no age, birthplace or family, so the archive shows them as a lead (The Jewish Week, New York, 9 March 1990, and Forverts, 31 March 1975, National Library of Israel, Historical Jewish Press).

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