Mojsze Szymkiewicz

Mojsze Szymkiewicz received transit visa no. 546 at the Japanese consulate in Kaunas on 31 July 1940. The register records merchant, aged 30.

What the register records

Nationality as recorded

Polnisch

Age in 1940

30

Occupation

Merchant

Family, per the Kitade-Bluman list

wife Bejla (26)

The journey

Reached Japan; aided by the Polish ambassador Tadeusz Romer; registered in Kobe for USA.

Travelled with, and never given a number

• Bejla — wife, aged 26

The register recorded visa holders. It did not reliably record the wives and children who travelled on somebody else’s visa, so these people have no entry of their own and cannot be searched for. Where the archive has recovered a name, it is here.

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…
  5372, Lodz 1910, from Lodz
• 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…
  269, 1910 Lodz, Polish
• 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…
  #672, age 31, b. Lodz, chauffeur, no.416
• hunt/familysearch: US arrival manifest: Mojsze Szymkiewicz, Seattle, 1941
  "Seattle Passenger Lists", FamilySearch, entry for Mojsze Szymkiewicz, 1941. Ship: Hikawa Maru. Matched from the Hikawa Maru's Polish-born passenger list (162 people, 35 matched). Register No.546 'Mojsze zymkiewicz' records age 30; the manifest gives born 1910, arriving 1941.