Jakob-Moszek Kac

Jakob-Moszek Kac received transit visa no. 622 at the Japanese consulate in Kaunas on 1 August 1940. The register records merchant, aged 22.

What the register records

Nationality as recorded

Polnisch

Age in 1940

22

Occupation

Merchant

The journey

Reached Japan; reached Shanghai; registered in Kobe for South America.

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…
  6843, b.1918 Zawiercie, from Jedrzejov
• 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 1291); the names closely match this register line — approved by the owner's review, 19 Aug 2026 — LEDGER ENTRY READ: Kac Jakub Moszek, born 15 December 1918; registered 17 November 1941; Tokyo-issued passport of 12 November 1941.
• 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 14 Feb 1941 (line 622)