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…
  4413, Warszawa, 1904, from Warszawa
• 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)