Stanislaw Tobolowski

Stanislaw Tobolowski received transit visa no. 685 at the Japanese consulate in Kaunas on 1 August 1940. The register records lawyer, aged 35.

What the register records

Nationality as recorded

Polnisch

Age in 1940

35

Occupation

Lawyer

The journey

Reached Japan; aided by the Polish ambassador Tadeusz Romer; registered in Kobe for Australia.

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…
  Entry 338 of the Kobe community's list of refugees and their relatives abroad: aged 37, born at Warsaw, a lawyer; relatives abroad: an aunt, Arlasaroff, 13 Radak Street, Tel Aviv; a friend, Dr Czarnożył, Colgate-Palmolive, Jersey City.
• National Archives of Australia, RecordSearch — Stanislaw Tobolowski: B6531, NATURALISED/1946-1947/POLISH/TOBOLOWSKI STANISLAW (alien registration, with photograph; items 6543758 and 33069056); A997 1945/643; A435 1946/4/5578; A714 61/199…
  The National Archives of Australia's files, read on RecordSearch on 3 October 2026: Stanislaw Tobolowski, Polish, born 9 September 1904 at Warsaw, arrived in Australia on 9 August 1941 on the Kasima Maru from Japan, registered as an alien at St Kilda East on 17 August 1941 (certificate 342, series B6531, with a photograph), and naturalised on 16 December 1946 at Elwood, Victoria (series A714, 61/19986). The register's Stanislaw Tobolowski, Polish, 35 on the compiled list, a lawyer bound for Australia, is the only Tobolowski on the register; the birth year, the birthplace, the Japanese ship and the destination agree.
• "Escape from Europe after two years — Polish Jew's story", The Australian Jewish Herald (Melbourne), 28 August 1941, pp. 2 and 5: Mr S. Tobolowski, a Warsaw barrister, arrived in Melbourne from Japan a fortnight earlier
  Two weeks after landing, Stanisław Tobolowski told the Australian Jewish Herald (28 August 1941) his own story: a practising barrister in Warsaw and a member of an anti-aircraft unit on 1 September 1939, he left the city on 6 September on the road the government took, by Lublin and Równe to Lwów and then to Vilna; after a stay divided between Vilna and Kaunas he obtained a visa for Japan and went by Vladivostok to Kobe, where, he said, twenty-nine Jewish families took on the welfare of sixteen hundred refugees; he reached Melbourne in the middle of August 1941. This is the arrival of 9 August 1941 on the Kasima Maru that the National Archives of Australia records for him.
• JDC Archives, New York, collection AR 33/44 file 53 (the Jewish Community of Kobe's returns to the JDC, 1941; Set I, item 00761) — Set I pp. 5–7 — "List… — "List of persons who left Japan for Shanghai in the month of July 1941", Nos. 1–15
  He left Kobe on the Kasima Maru on 6 July 1941, bound for Australia (the Jewish Community of Kobe's list of departures, July 1941 (JDC Archives, AR 33/44 file 53)). The list reads: "Tobolowski Stanislaw — Polish — Kobe — Australia". (Kasima Maru, Kobe, 6 July 1941, destination Australia.)
• The Australian Jewish News (Melbourne), 19 August 1977 (National Library of Israel, Historical Jewish Press)
  Stanisław Tobolowski made his life in Melbourne as Stanley Tobolowski — some ten years as an insurance agent with Colonial Mutual, then, from the early 1950s, a real-estate agency of his own. He died suddenly in Zurich in August 1977; The Australian Jewish News (Melbourne) published his obituary on 19 August 1977, recalling the Warsaw lawyer who had reached Australia by way of the Far East (National Library of Israel, Historical Jewish Press).

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