Szamaj Polakiewicz

Szamaj Polakiewicz received transit visa no. 619 at the Japanese consulate in Kaunas on 1 August 1940. The register records physician, aged 29.

What the register records

Nationality as recorded

Polnisch

Age in 1940

29

Occupation

Physician

Family, per the Kitade-Bluman list

plus three family members

The journey

Reached Japan; reached Shanghai; registered in Kobe for Australia.

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…
  7032; Warszaw 1911 Warszawa
• 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…
  217, 1911 Warsaw; brother M.Polakiewicz Chicago, uncle S.Pola Utica
• 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 349, 30, Warsaw, Phisician, 24.2
• 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 1217); the names closely match this register line — approved by the owner's review, 19 Aug 2026 — LEDGER ENTRY READ: Polakiewicz Szamaj, student, born 1911 Warsaw, single; registered 13 October 1941; 1248 Rue Lafayette; Warsaw passport extended by the British Legation in Kaunas 1939-40 and by the Polish Embassy in Tokyo 16 May 1941 — found on reading the page.
• 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 24 Feb 1941 (line 619)
• Archive note, 30 August 2026 — a correction to the Kobe attributions. Thirteen register entries had been matched to two lines each of the Kobe refugee register, on the strength of a similar surname. In seven cases the two lines described…
  This entry had been given Kobe entry 101 as well as entry 217. Entry 101, on page 3, is ULAKIEWICZ Szasa, aged seventy-one, of Goworowo. The register has a physician of twenty-nine. Entry 217, on page 63, is POLAKIEWICZ Szamaj, born 1911 at Warsaw, with a brother in Chicago and an uncle at Utica — thirty years old in 1941, and the line that remains.