Jakob Josef Znamierowski

Jakob Josef Znamierowski received transit visa no. 533 at the Japanese consulate in Kaunas on 31 July 1940. The register records leather expert, aged 30.

What the register records

Nationality as recorded

Polnisch

Age in 1940

30

Occupation

Leather Expert

Family, per the Kitade-Bluman list

husband of #534

The journey

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

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…
  6473, Bialystok, 1913, 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…
  age 30, Warsaw, clerk, Polish; uncle S.Smith ... High