Szymon Muszkat received transit visa no. 651 at the Japanese consulate in Kaunas on 1 August 1940. The register records merchant, aged 38.
What the register records
Nationality as recorded
Polnisch
Age in 1940
38
Occupation
Merchant
The journey
Reached Japan; aided by the Polish ambassador Tadeusz Romer; registered in Kobe for Canada.
Where this comes from
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… 196, 1902; brother Paul Muskat Brooklyn NY
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… 39, Warsaw, Merchant, 25.2
hunt/familysearch: US arrival manifest: Szymon Muszkat, Seattle, 1941 "Seattle Passenger Lists", FamilySearch, entry for Szymon Muszkat, 1941. Ship: Heian Maru. Matched from the Heian Maru's Polish-born passenger list (198 people, of whom 57 matched the register). Register No.651 'zymon Muszkat' records age 38; the manifest gives born 1902, arriving 1941. Confi