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.

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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…
  The 1940 Vilna refugee list has, at entry 1516, Jowel Filipowski, born 1911 at Łódź, who came from Łódź; the year agrees with the register's compiled age, and the town with what the archive already holds for this line.
• 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…
  Entry 65 of the Kobe community's list of refugees and their relatives abroad: aged 30, born at Lodz, a merchant; relatives abroad: an aunt, Fania, Rakatio de Janeiro (so written), Rua General Caldwell 281, apartment 1.
• 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.
• "Washington, King, Seattle, Passenger Lists, 1890-1957", FamilySearch — index entry for Jowel Filipowski, 1941: born about 1911, Poland. Digitised from NARA microfilm publication M1383 (passenger and crew lists of vessels arriving at Sea…
  FamilySearch's index of the Seattle passenger lists, read by the archive on 20 September 2026, has Jowel Filipowski, born about 1911 in Poland, arriving at Seattle in 1941. The register's compiled line gives 1911, and the two agree. The name occurs once on the register, and a Polish-born passenger landing at Seattle in 1941 fits the route through Japan, so the entry is taken as this person's under the archive's rule of 19 September 2026 for records from the route.
• JDC Archives, New York, collection AR 33/44 file 53 (the Jewish Community of Ko… — "List of departures for the month of June, 1941" (Jewish Community of Kobe, Migration Office; covering letter p. 12, Kobe, July 1941, HICEM-funded tickets)
  He left Yokohama on the Hikawa Maru on 5 June 1941, bound for Vancouver (the Jewish Community of Kobe's list of departures, June 1941 (JDC Archives, AR 33/44 file 53)). The list reads: Hikawa Maru sheet: "Filipowski Jowel — 1". (Hikawa Maru, Yokohama, 5 June 1941, Vancouver.)
• A ship, arriving at Seattle in 1941: list or manifest of alien passengers, the sheet that names Zygmumt Glass — US National Archives, Record Group 85 (Immigration and Naturalization Service), Passenger and Crew Lists of Vessels Arriving…
• Arriving at Seattle: the continuation sheet, with the relatives named and the destinations, for the sheet that names Zygmunt Glass — US National Archives, Record Group 85 (Immigration and Naturalization Service), Passenger and Crew Lists…

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