Moryc Kowalski

Moryc Kowalski received transit visa no. 373 at the Japanese consulate in Kaunas on 30 July 1940. The register records merchant, aged 50.

What the register records

Nationality as recorded

Polnisch

Age in 1940

50

Occupation

Merchant

The journey

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

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 7676, Moryc Kowalik, born 1889 at Lowicz, who had come from Lowicz; the year agrees with the register's compiled age.
• 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 1115) — the consulate's register of Polish citizens who reached the city, 1934-1943
• Names and addresses of Polish refugees registered with UNRRA wishing to return to Poland, Shanghai, 1946 (United Nations Relief and Rehabilit… — United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, Holocaust Survivors and Victims Database, list 48688
  In 1946 the United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration's Shanghai office drew up a one-page list of the Polish refugees registered with it who wished to be repatriated to Poland; the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum has indexed its 37 names. Moryc Kowalski is on it; his is the only line of that name on the register, which records him as a merchant who reached Shanghai.
• 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 Moryc, also called Moszek Lajb, Kowalski, aged 52, born at Lowicz, a merchant.

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