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…
  The 1940 Vilna refugee list has, at entry 6843, Jakb Moszek Kac, born 1918 at Zawiercie, who came from Jedrzejow; the year agrees with the register's compiled age.
• 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 — the ledger reads: 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)
• "California, San Francisco, Passenger Lists, 1893-1953", FamilySearch — index entry for Jakub M Kac, 1948: born about 1918, Poland. Digitised from NARA microfilm publication M1410 (passenger lists of vessels arriving at San Francisco). S…
  FamilySearch's index of the San Francisco passenger lists, read by the archive on 20 September 2026, has Jakub M Kac, born about 1918 in Poland, arriving at San Francisco in 1948 on the General W. H. Gordon. The register's compiled line gives 1918, 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 399, image 497, read by the archive on 20 September 2026.
• 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…
  The Kobe Jewish Community's refugee register lists Jakob Moszek Kac, aged 23, born at Zawiercie, a merchant, who reached Japan from Vilno on 14 February 1941.
• 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…
  The Kobe community's list of refugees and their relatives abroad has Jakub Moszek Kac, born in 1918 at Zawiercie.
• La-karov ve-la-rachok, 31 March 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 31 March 1946, lists Jacob-Moschek Kac: born 1918 at Zawierce, a merchant, arrived in 1941 from Lithuania; the year, the town and the trade agree with the Kobe Jewish community's refugee register, the Kobe community's list of refugees and their relatives and the 1940 Vilna refugee list (National Library of Israel, Historical Jewish Press).

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