Mieczyslaw Kawa

Mieczyslaw Kawa received transit visa no. 303 at the Japanese consulate in Kaunas on 30 July 1940. The register records motor car, aged 44.

What the register records

Nationality as recorded

Polnisch

Age in 1940

44

Occupation

Motor Car

The journey

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

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 126 of the Kobe community's list of refugees and their relatives abroad: born 1896 at Wloclawek.
• 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 235 of the Kobe Jewish Community's refugee register: aged 45, born at Wloclawek, a clerk, who arrived in Japan from Vilnius on 25 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 995) — the consulate's register of Polish citizens who reached the city, 1934-1943 — the ledger reads: Kawa Mieczyslaw, INDUSTRIALIST (przemyslowiec), born 25 February 1896 Wloclawek, married; registered 23 April 1941; 1277/16 Yu Yuen Road; Tokyo-issued passport of 1 March 1941 (Ser. II 290443) on a Wloclawek identity card of 1924 and a British Legation Kaunas certificate of 29 July 1940 (K-317).
• 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 Feb 1941 (line 303)
• "California, San Francisco, Passenger Lists, 1893-1953", FamilySearch — index entry for Mieczyslaw Kawa, 1947: born about 1896, 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 Mieczyslaw Kawa, born about 1896 in Poland, arriving at San Francisco in 1947 on the General M. C. Meigs. The register's compiled line gives 1896, and the two are 0 years apart, and the name occurs once on the register. The ship's manifest heading says she sailed from Shanghai, and a passenger born in Poland landing at San Francisco in 1947 from Shanghai is the route's end: the refugees who waited out the war there. So the entry is taken as this person's under the archive's rule of 19 September 2026 for records from the route. The sheet is NARA microfilm publication M1410, film 392, image 725, read by the archive on 20 September 2026.
• 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 Nagasaki Maru, from Nagasaki, 8 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: "Kawa Mieczyslaw". (Nagasaki Maru, Nagasaki, 8 April 1941, Shanghai.)
• La-karov ve-la-rachok, 31 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 31 March 1946, lists Mieczyslaw Kawa: born 1896 at Wloclawek, an industrialist, arrived in 1941 from Vilnius; the year and the town agree with the Kobe Jewish community's refugee register and the Kobe community's list of refugees and their relatives (National Library of Israel, Historical Jewish Press).

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