Leon Lewkowicz

Leon Lewkowicz received transit visa no. 569 at the Japanese consulate in Kaunas on 31 July 1940. The register records agronomist, aged 42.

What the register records

Nationality as recorded

Polnisch

Age in 1940

42

Occupation

Agronomist

The journey

Reached Japan; reached Shanghai.

Where this comes from

• 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…
  No.103, age 43, b. Szadek, Farmer, arr. 13.1. from Vilno
• 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 1208) — the consulate's register of Polish citizens who reached the city, 1934-1943 — LEDGER ENTRY READ: Lewkowicz Leon, AGRONOMIST, born 29 July 1898 Szadek; Tokyo-issued passport of 26 July 1941 (Ser. II 004133) on a British Legation Kaunas certificate of 23 July 1940 (L-24).
• 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 13 Jan 1941 (line 569)
• 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. 83, 'LEWKOWICZ Leon'); 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 23): LEWKOWICZ Leon, rolnik (farmer), born 1898; passport 373/729/30/VII/41, Tokio 26.7.41, do 8.12.43 — Holds no visa. Applies for military service; failing that wishes to go to Mexico, where he has friends who tried to obtain a visa for him.