Natan Natanowicz

Natan Natanowicz received transit visa no. 715 at the Japanese consulate in Kaunas on 1 August 1940. The register records clerk, aged 56.

What the register records

Nationality as recorded

Polnisch

Age in 1940

56

Occupation

Clerk

Family, per the Kitade-Bluman list

father of #650

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 Natan Natanowicz at entry 4177, born 1915 at Płock, who had come from Warsaw. It is shown as a lead, not as this person: born 1915 against the register's age of 56 (and the register makes him father of No. 650, born 1916).
• 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 197 of the Kobe community's list of refugees and their relatives abroad: born 1915 at Plock; relatives abroad: a cousin, Eliasz Mazur, Jerusalem; J. Spero, Los Angeles.
• The JEWCOM register — the refugee register kept by the Refugee Committee of the Jewish Community of Kobe (Ashkenazim) at No. 6 Yamamoto-dori, 1-chome, whose cable address was 'JEWCOM Kobe'. Eighty-four pages on the committee's own printe…
  The Kobe Jewish Community's refugee register: aged 26, born at Plock, a clerk, who arrived in Japan from Kaunas on 25 February 1941.
• 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 Feb 1941 (line 715)
• 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: "Natanowicz Natan". (Taiyo Maru, Kobe, 18 July 1941, destination Burma.)

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