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

• 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…
  #3035, b.1889 Warszawa, 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…
  126, 1896 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…
  235, 45, b. Wloclawek, Clerk, arr. 25.2, from Vilno
• 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 — LEDGER ENTRY READ: 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)