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…
  Entry 103 of the Kobe Jewish Community's refugee register: aged 43, born at Szadek, a farmer, who arrived in Japan from Vilnius on 13 January 1941.
• 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 — the ledger reads: 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… — cited by link only (Canadiana Heritage); frame image not republished
  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.
• La-karov ve-la-rachok, 6 August 1946 — the Far Eastern Palestine Committee's list of Jewish refugees in Shanghai (National Library of Israel, Historical Jewish Press)
  The Far Eastern Palestine Committee's list of Jewish refugees in Shanghai, printed by the Jewish Agency Search Bureau's bulletin La-karov ve-la-rachok on 6 August 1946, lists Leon Lewkowicz: born 1898 at Szadek, a farmer, arrived in 1941 from Poland; the year and the town agree with the Kobe Jewish community's refugee register (National Library of Israel, Historical Jewish Press).
• 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 3464, Lewkowicz Leon Lejb, born 1898, with Łódź written by a ditto mark as both birthplace and last residence; the year agrees with the birth date the Shanghai consular ledger gives. The Kobe register and the consular ledger have him born at Szadek, near Łódź; the records disagree on the town and agree on the year.

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