Chaim Lwowicz

Chaim Lwowicz received transit visa no. 693 at the Japanese consulate in Kaunas on 1 August 1940. The register records rabbi, aged 32.

What the register records

Nationality as recorded

Polnisch

Age in 1940

32

Occupation

Rabbi

The journey

Reached Japan; registered in Kobe for USA.

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…
  3458; b.1908; from Radzyri
• hunt/familysearch: US arrival manifest: Chaim Lvovic or Lwowicz, Seattle, 1940
  "Seattle Passenger Lists", FamilySearch, entry for Chaim Lvovic or Lwowicz, 1940. Ship: Heian Maru. Matched from the Heian Maru's Polish-born passenger list (198 people, of whom 57 matched the register). Register No.693 'Chaim Lwowicz' records age 32; the manifest gives born 1908, arriving 19