Joachim Horowicz

Joachim Horowicz received transit visa no. 314 at the Japanese consulate in Kaunas on 30 July 1940. The register records lawyer, aged 35.

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What the register records

Nationality as recorded

Polnisch

Age in 1940

35

Occupation

Lawyer

Family, per the Kitade-Bluman list

husband of #315

The journey

Reached Japan; registered in Kobe for Canada.

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…
  The 1940 Vilna refugee list has, at entry 2298, Joerim Horowicz, born 1901, who came from Warszawa; the forename is typed Joerim and the year, 1901, is four years from the register's compiled age (35 in 1940), so the archive shows the entry as a lead, not as an identification.
• 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 296 of the Kobe Jewish Community's refugee register: aged 35, born at Bedzin, a lawyer, who arrived in Japan from Vilnius on 13 February 1941.
• US arrival manifest: Joachim Horowicz, Seattle, 1941
  "Seattle Passenger Lists", FamilySearch, entry for Joachim Horowicz, 1941. Ship: Heian Maru. Matched from the Heian Maru's Polish-born passenger list (198 people, of whom 57 matched the register). Register No.314 'Joachim Horowicz' records age 35; the manifest gives born 1905, arriving 1941.
• M/S Heian Maru manifest, sheet 21 — List or Manifest of Alien Passengers, sailed Yokohama 27 May 1941, arrived Seattle 7 June 1941, all thirty admitted (NARA M1383, roll 262, Seattle Passenger Lists; retrieved with the owner signed in).…
  M/S Heian Maru, Yokohama 27 May - Seattle 7 June 1941; line 12: 36, lawyer, b. Bedzin — beside his wife, as on the register
• 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 314)
• "Washington, King, Seattle, Passenger Lists, 1890-1957", FamilySearch — index entry for Joachim Horowicz, 1941: born about 1905, Poland. Digitised from NARA microfilm publication M1383 (passenger and crew lists of vessels arriving at Sea…
  FamilySearch's index of the Seattle passenger lists, read by the archive on 20 September 2026, has Joachim Horowicz, born about 1905 in Poland, arriving at Seattle in 1941. The register's compiled line gives 1905, and the two agree. The name occurs once on the register, and a Polish-born passenger landing at Seattle 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.
• 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… — "List of refugees who left Japan to places other than Shanghai in the month of May 1941", Nos. 1–321
  He left Yokohama on the Heian Maru on 27 May 1941, bound for Canada (the Jewish Community of Kobe's list of departures, May 1941 (JDC Archives, AR 33/44 file 53)). The list reads: "Horowicz Joachim, ″ Irena". (Heian Maru, Yokohama, 27 May 1941.)
• 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…
  The Kobe community's list of refugees and their relatives abroad has Joachim Horowitz, born in 1905 at Bedzin, with his wife and children. Sugihara's ledger writes the name Horowicz; the list writes Horowitz.
• The Heian Maru, arriving at Seattle in 1941: list or manifest of alien passengers, the sheet that names Emanuel Distler — US National Archives, Record Group 85 (Immigration and Naturalization Service), Passenger and Crew Lists of Vessels…
• The Heian Maru, arriving at Seattle in 1941: the continuation sheet, with the relatives named and the destinations, for the sheet that names Norbert Henryk Gorwic — US National Archives, Record Group 85 (Immigration and Naturalization Se…

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