Kazimir Posluszny

Kazimir Posluszny received transit visa no. 69 at the Japanese consulate in Kaunas on 29 July 1940. The register records student, aged 17.

What the register records

Nationality as recorded

Polnisch

Age in 1940

17

Occupation

Student

Family, per the Kitade-Bluman list

son of #73

The journey

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

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 a Kazimierz Posłuszny at entry 4413, born 1904 at Warsaw, who had come from Warsaw. It is shown as a lead, not as this person: born 1904 against the register's age of 17, which puts the birth about 1923, son of No. 73.
• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, Holocaust Survivors and Victims Database — the Flight and Rescue electronic dataset (source 20725): USHMM's own transcription of the Kaunas register, 2,140 persons with citizenship, visa type, iss…
  USHMM Flight and Rescue dataset: arrived in Japan 25 Jan 1941 (line 69)
• 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 Taiyo Maru on 18 July 1941, bound for Burma (the Jewish Community of Kobe's list of departures, July 1941 (JDC Archives, AR 33/44 file 53)). The list reads: "″ K[a]zimierz". (Taiyo Maru, Kobe, 18 July 1941, destination Burma.)
• Yad Vashem Archives, Jerusalem — the card file of Jewish refugees from Poland who found refuge in various countries, 1939–1941
  Yad Vashem's card file of Jewish refugees from Poland who found refuge in various countries, 1939–1941, has a card for Kazimierz Posluszny, born in 1924, of Warsaw, who was in Wilno during the war. The archive attaches it under its rule of 19 September 2026: the card file is a record of the refugees in Wilno, where the road through Sugihara's visas began; the full name occurs once on the register; and the card places the person in Wilno in 1939–41, on the road to Sugihara's visas. Credit: Yad Vashem Archives.

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