Lewkowicz Jozef

Lewkowicz Jozef received transit visa no. 58 at the Japanese consulate in Kaunas on 27 July 1940. The register records manufacturer, aged 35.

What the register records

Nationality as recorded

Polnisch

Age in 1940

35

Occupation

Manufacturer

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…
  The 1940 Vilna refugee list has, at entry 3573, Józef Lewkowicz, born 1905, who had come from Łódź; the year agrees with the register's age.
• 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 190 of the Kobe community's list of refugees and their relatives abroad: aged 36, born at Radomsko, a manufacturer, Polish; relatives abroad: a wife, Zofia Lewkowicz, 24 Atlantica Avenue, Rio de Janeiro; a cousin, Joe Morris, 176 Victoria Road, Tientsin.
• 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 993) — the consulate's register of Polish citizens who reached the city, 1934-1943 — the ledger reads: Lewkowicz Jozef, INDUSTRIALIST (przemyslowiec), of Radomsko, married; registered April 1941 while living at 252 Victoria Road, TIENTSIN; passport L-59 issued by the Shanghai consulate 17 April 1941.
• "California, San Francisco, Passenger Lists, 1893-1953", FamilySearch — index entry for Josef Lewkowicz, 1949: born about 1905, Polish. Digitised from NARA microfilm publication M1410 (passenger lists of vessels arriving at San Francisco…
  FamilySearch's index of the San Francisco passenger lists, read by the archive on 20 September 2026, has Josef Lewkowicz, born about 1905 in Polish, arriving at San Francisco in 1949 on the President Cleveland. The register's compiled line gives 1905, and the two are 0 years apart, and the name occurs once on the register. The sheet names the ship but its heading could not be read for the port she sailed from, so this is held as a lead until it can. The sheet is NARA microfilm publication M1410, film 404, image 828, read by the archive on 20 September 2026.
• 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 Josef Lewkowicz: born 1905 at Radomsk, an employee, arrived in 1941 from Vilnius; the year and the town agree with the Kobe community's list of refugees and their relatives (National Library of Israel, Historical Jewish Press).

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