Marian Posluszny

Marian Posluszny received transit visa no. 73 at the Japanese consulate in Kaunas on 29 July 1940. The register records manufacturer, aged 57.

What the register records

Nationality as recorded

Polnisch

Age in 1940

57

Occupation

Manufacturer

Family, per the Kitade-Bluman list

father of #69

The journey

Reached Japan; aided by the Polish ambassador Tadeusz Romer; registered in Kobe for Burma.

Where this comes from

• 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…
  Entry 133 of the Kobe Jewish Community's refugee register: aged 57, born at Bendzin, a manufacturer, who arrived in Japan on 25 January 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 Jan 1941 (line 73)
• 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: "Posluszny Marjan". (Taiyo Maru, Kobe, 18 July 1941, destination Burma.)
• 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…
  The Kobe community's list of refugees and their relatives abroad has Marian Posluszni, with Kazimierz. The name occurs only once on Sugihara's list and the list is of refugees at Kobe in 1941, the route his visa took; that is the basis of this attachment. Sugihara's ledger writes the name Postuszny; the list writes Posluszni.

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