Jakob Warszawski
Visa no. 722 · Kaunas, 1 August 1940
Jakob Warszawski received transit visa no. 722 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.
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… 6271; 1894; Warszawa 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…285, 1913 Sochaczew, Polish; uncle Abram Lach Mexico DF Honduras No 58 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 24 Feb 1941 (line 722)
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Jakob Warszawski is one of 2,140 people recorded in the surviving register of the transit
visas Chiune Sugihara issued at the Japanese consulate in Kaunas, Lithuania, in 1940.
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