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.

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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…
  The 1940 Vilna refugee list has, at entry 5372, Mojsze Szymkiewicz, born 1910 at Łódź, who had come from Łódź; the year agrees with the register's age and Łódź agrees with the archive's other records.
• 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 5637, Mojsze Szymkiewicz, born 1910 at Łódź, who had come from Łódź; the year agrees with the register's age and Łódź agrees with the archive's other records.
• 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 269 of the Kobe community's list of refugees and their relatives abroad: born 1910 at 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…
  Entry 672 of the Kobe Jewish Community's refugee register (also numbered 416): aged 31, born at Lodz, a chauffeur.
• 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.
• "Washington, King, Seattle, Passenger Lists, 1890-1957", FamilySearch — index entry for Mojsze Szymkiewicz, 1941: born about 1910, Poland. Digitised from NARA microfilm publication M1383 (passenger and crew lists of vessels arriving at S…
  FamilySearch's index of the Seattle passenger lists, read by the archive on 20 September 2026, has Mojsze Szymkiewicz, born about 1910 in Poland, arriving at Seattle in 1941. The register's compiled line gives 1910, and the two agree. The name occurs once on the register, and a Polish-born passenger landing at Seattle in 1941 fits the route through Japan, so the entry is taken as this person's under the archive's rule of 19 September 2026 for records from the route.
• JDC Archives, New York, collection AR 33/44 file 53 (the Jewish Community of Ko… — "List of departures for the month of June, 1941" (Jewish Community of Kobe, Migration Office; covering letter p. 12, Kobe, July 1941, HICEM-funded tickets)
  He left Yokohama on the Hikawa Maru on 5 June 1941, bound for Vancouver (the Jewish Community of Kobe's list of departures, June 1941 (JDC Archives, AR 33/44 file 53))." that `unlisted_travellers` row 369 records from Prof. Leiserowitz. Her sailing can go on that row. page); the children may be living. Apply the living-person rule before adding a sailing for the children. The list reads: Hikawa Maru sheet: "Szymkiewicz Mojsze & wife Bejla — 2". (Hikawa Maru, Yokohama, 5 June 1941, Vancouver.)
• The Hikawa Maru, arriving at Seattle in 1941: list or manifest of alien passengers, the sheet that names Mojsze Szymkiewicz — US National Archives, Record Group 85 (Immigration and Naturalization Service), Passenger and Crew Lists of Ves…
• Arriving at Seattle: the continuation sheet, with the relatives named and the destinations, for the sheet that names Mojsze Szymkiewicz — US National Archives, Record Group 85 (Immigration and Naturalization Service), Passenger and Crew…

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