Jowel Filipowski

Jowel Filipowski received transit visa no. 646 at the Japanese consulate in Kaunas on 1 August 1940. The register records merchant, aged 29.

What the register records

Nationality as recorded

Polnisch

Age in 1940

29

Occupation

Merchant

The journey

Reached Japan; aided by the Polish ambassador Tadeusz Romer; 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…
  1516, Lodz, 1911, 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…
  65; age 30; b. Lodz; merchant; aount Fania Rakatio de Janeiro rua Gen.Caldwell 281 Ap.1
• hunt/familysearch: US arrival manifest: Jowel Filipowski, Seattle, 1941
  "Seattle Passenger Lists", FamilySearch, entry for Jowel Filipowski, 1941. Ship: Hikawa Maru. Matched from the Hikawa Maru's Polish-born passenger list (162 people, 35 matched). Register No.646 'Jowel Filipowski' records age 29; the manifest gives born 1911, arriving 1941.