Menachem Pizyc

Menachem Pizyc received transit visa no. 46 at the Japanese consulate in Kaunas on 27 July 1940. The register records clerk, aged 40.

What the register records

Nationality as recorded

Polnisch

Age in 1940

40

Occupation

Clerk

The journey

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

Where this comes from

• 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 1185); the names closely match on the repaired reading — matched on the repaired register name, approved under the owner's review of 19 Aug 2026 — LEDGER ENTRY READ: Pizyc Menachem Mendel, company officer (prokurent), born 1 January 1900 Mlawa, married; 455 Rue Lafayette apt 7; Tokyo-issued passport of 10 August 1941 (Ser. II 004174) on a British Legation Kaunas certificate of 25 July 1940 (P-178) and a Warsaw identity card of 1930.
• 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 46)
• Tadeusz Romer papers, Library and Archives Canada, MG 31 D 68, vol. 2 (microfilm reel C-10451, frame 1088): 'Lista obywateli polskich ewakuowanych z Dalekiego Wschodu', page 2 — Kamakura Maru, Shanghai 16 August 1942: officials (the Rome…
  Named on the Polish Embassy's list of Polish citizens evacuated from the Far East on the exchange ship s/s Kamakura Maru, Shanghai, 16 August 1942 — one of the 41 'civilian refugees' for whom Ambassador Romer obtained places (evacuee no. 92, 'PIZYC Menachem Mendel'); the party sailed with Romer to Lourenco Marques and most went on to England
• Library and Archives Canada, Tadeusz Romer fonds, MG 31 D 68, reel C-10452, frame 627, via Canadiana Heritage — the same list, page 3, entries 23-32 (Lewkowicz, Lifszyc brother and sister, Mann, Marber, Matecka, Merzel, Pikielny, Pinus,…
  On the Polish Embassy's list of 41 Polish refugees (Romer's Shanghai-period papers) (Romer fonds, reel C-10452, frame 627, entry 32): PIŻYC Menachem-Mendel, prokurent handlowy, born 1900; passport 393/729/24/VIII/41, Tokyo 10.8.41, do 8.12.1943 — Holds no visa. Wishes to go to Canada or the USA, where the Alfa Laval works have branches and family, or Australia, where he has friends. Failing Africa, asks for a stay in the Union of South Africa, where Alfa Laval also has offices.