Icko Kozakiewicz

Icko Kozakiewicz received transit visa no. 205 at the Japanese consulate in Kaunas on 30 July 1940. The register records manufacturer, aged 52.

What the register records

Nationality as recorded

Polnisch

Age in 1940

52

Occupation

Manufacturer

Family, per the Kitade-Bluman list

wife Sura (44), children (Dawid (18), Leon (17))

The journey

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

Travelled with, and never given a number

• Sura — wife, aged 44
• Dawid — child, aged 18
• Leon — child, aged 17

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

• 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…
  2732, Durzysk, b.1833, from Warszawa
• 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…
  154, 53, Warsaw, manufac., Polish; sister N.Dubrow 1934 Ellis Ave Bronx NY
• 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 1300) — the consulate's register of Polish citizens who reached the city, 1934-1943 — LEDGER ENTRY READ: Kozakiewicz Icko, SOAP-MAKER (mydlarz), born 5 May 1888 Turzysk, married; 385/21 Kwenming Road; registered 20 November 1941 on a passport issued by the Shanghai consulate 7 November 1941 (K-121/2) — with Sura Kozakiewicz (b. 1895 Kowel, entry 1298) and Dawid (student, b. 1921 Kowel, entry 1299), neither in the Kaunas register.