Benjamin Sadowski
Visa no. 402 · Kaunas, 30 July 1940
Benjamin Sadowski received transit visa no. 402 at the Japanese consulate in Kaunas on 30 July 1940. The register records timber specialist, aged 60.
What the register records
- Nationality as recorded
- Polnisch
- Age in 1940
- 60
- Occupation
- Timber Specialist
The journey
Reached Japan; aided by the Polish ambassador Tadeusz Romer; registered in Kobe for Palestine.
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 284 of the Kobe community's list of refugees and their relatives abroad: aged 60, born at Siedlce, a timber specialist, Polish; relatives abroad: a brother, L. Sadowski, 225 Bezalel Street, Jerusalem; a daughter, care of Sadowski, Wlada Shmidt, 1257 North Ashland Avenue, Chicago, Illinois. - Haaretz, 2 February 1942, and HaTzofe, 3 February 1942 (National Library of Israel, Historical Jewish Press)
In February 1942 Benjamin Sadowski was among the immigrants on their way from India to the Land of Israel listed by Haaretz (2 February) and HaTzofe (3 February 1942) (National Library of Israel, Historical Jewish Press). The archive counts this as a corroboration under its rule of 19 September 2026: the list is a record of the Sugihara route itself, the Jewish Agency's own roll of the Kobe refugees sent on through Bombay; the full name occurs once on the register; and India in the winter of 1941–42 is where that road ran. No second personal fact has yet been found. - HaBoker, HaTzofe, Omer and Haaretz, 19 September 1941 (National Library of Israel, Historical Jewish Press)
Benjamin Sadowski reached Bombay on the way from Japan to Palestine. On 19 September 1941 the Tel Aviv papers HaBoker, HaTzofe and Omer printed a telegram from the committee of Polish-Jewish refugees listing 'these Polish refugees, immigrants to the Land of Israel', whose address at that time was Cook's office in Bombay; the name is on it. The archive attaches it because the list is one of the refugees on the Sugihara route, the name occurs once on the register, and the place and date fit (National Library of Israel, Historical Jewish Press).
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