Markiel Jasinowski

Markiel Jasinowski received transit visa no. 583 at the Japanese consulate in Kaunas on 31 July 1940. The register records textiles, aged 33.

What the register records

Nationality as recorded

Polnisch

Age in 1940

33

Occupation

Textiles

The journey

Reached Japan; registered in Kobe for Canada.

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…
  7293; Czernowicze; b.1907; 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…
  No 121; 1908 Czernawczyce; Polish; uncle I.Greenberg, 43 SO Mainstr. Freeport, New York; uncle Abram Lekich, Avenida Hygienopolis 733 Sao Paulo
• 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…
  314, 34, b. Czernawczyce, textile technical, arr. 2.2, from Kovno
• hunt/familysearch: US arrival manifest: Markel Jasinowski, Seattle, 1941
  "Seattle Passenger Lists", FamilySearch, entry for Markel Jasinowski, 1941. Ship: Heian Maru. Matched from the Heian Maru's Polish-born passenger list (198 people, of whom 57 matched the register). Register No.583 'Markiel Jasinowski' records age 33; the manifest gives born 1908, arriving 194
• M/S Heian Maru manifest, sheet 21 — List or Manifest of Alien Passengers, sailed Yokohama 27 May 1941, arrived Seattle 7 June 1941, all thirty admitted (NARA M1383, roll 262, Seattle Passenger Lists; retrieved with the owner signed in).…
  M/S Heian Maru, Yokohama 27 May - Seattle 7 June 1941; line 14: 33, technician, b. Czernawczyce
• 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 2 Feb 1941 (line 583)
• MJH eMuseum object 2021.13.1 (Gift of Georgette Jasen): Postcard from Łódź Ghetto to Marek Jasinowski in Kobe, Japan, full-resolution scan 1/2 (media 45967)
• MJH eMuseum object 2021.13.2 (Gift of Georgette Jasen): Postcard from Mania in the Łódź Ghetto to Marek Jasinowski in Kobe, Japan, full-resolution scan 1/2 (media 45969)
• MJH eMuseum object 2021.13.3 (Gift of Georgette Jasen): Postcard from Mania in the Łódź Ghetto to Marek Jasinowski in Kobe, Japan, full-resolution scan 1/2 (media 45971)
• MJH eMuseum object 2021.13.4 (Gift of Georgette Jasen): Postcard from Mania in the Łódź Ghetto to Marek Jasinowski in Kobe, Japan, full-resolution scan 1/2 (media 45973)
• MJH eMuseum object 2021.13.7 (Gift of Georgette Jasen): Letter from Marek Jasinowski to his aunt Frances Greenberg, full-resolution scan 1/2 (media 45979)