Jakob Warszawski

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…
  The 1940 Vilna refugee list has, at entry 6271, Jakub Warszawski, born 1913 at Sochaczew, who had come from Ciechanów; the year agrees with the register's compiled age.
• 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 285 of the Kobe community's list of refugees and their relatives abroad: born 1913 at Sochaczew, Polish; relatives abroad: an uncle, Abram Lach, Honduras 58, Mexico City.
• 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)
• "California, Los Angeles, Passenger Lists, 1907-1948", FamilySearch — index entry for Icek Vel Jack Warszawski, 1941: born about 1912, Jadow, Poland. Digitised from NARA microfilm publication M1764 (passenger lists of vessels arriving at…
  FamilySearch's index of the Los Angeles passenger lists, read by the archive on 20 September 2026, has Icek Vel Jack Warszawski, born about 1912 in Jadow, Poland, arriving at Los Angeles in 1941. The register's compiled line gives 1913. A lead only: the register carries 3 lines of this name, and the index entry cannot be assigned to one of them without the manifest sheet.
• HaBoker, HaTzofe, Omer and Haaretz, 19 September 1941 (National Library of Israel, Historical Jewish Press)
  Jakob Warszawski reached Bombay on the way from Japan to Palestine. On 19 September 1941 the Tel Aviv papers HaBoker, HaTzofe and Omer printed a telegram from the committee of Polish-Jewish refugees listing 'these Polish refugees, immigrants to the Land of Israel', whose address at that time was Cook's office in Bombay; the name is on it. The archive attaches it because the list is one of the refugees on the Sugihara route, the name occurs once on the register, and the place and date fit (National Library of Israel, Historical Jewish Press).
• 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 Jakub Warszawski, aged 26, of Ciechanów, who was in Wilno during the war; his age and his town agree with this register line. Credit: Yad Vashem Archives.

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