Srul Lejb Spiwak

Srul Lejb Spiwak received transit visa no. 688 at the Japanese consulate in Kaunas on 1 August 1940. The register records clerk, aged 27.

What the register records

Nationality as recorded

Polnisch

Age in 1940

27

Occupation

Clerk

The journey

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

What is known

This entry (list no. 688) is marked/underlined by hand on the list.

A Polish Legation certificate (Zaswiadczenie/Certificat) issued in Kaunas for Srul Lejb Spivak, born 1912. The document was issued by the Legation of Poland in Kaunas on 30 August 1940, during the period of Sugihara/Zwartendijk visa issuance for Jewish refugees in Lithuania.

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…
  286, 29, Czyzew, clerk; aunt J.Galewsky 113-115 Montm ton Brooklyn NY
• S.S. Manila Maru, Kobe to South Africa, 29 May 1941 — list of refugee passengers, HICEM meeting half the cost of the passages. JDC Archives, New York, collection AR 33/44, file 00053, item 00766. One sheet carries four sailings; this is…
  Listed as "SPIWAK Srul" among the refugee passengers who left Kobe to South Africa on the Manila Maru. The compiled register gives Palestine for this line, which is not where this sailing was bound. The identification rests on the name alone and is offered as a possibility, not a finding.
• A document held in the archive's files