Mojzesz-Szloma Margolin

Mojzesz-Szloma Margolin received transit visa no. 746 at the Japanese consulate in Kaunas on 1 August 1940. The register records merchant, aged 36.

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What the register records

Nationality as recorded

Polnisch

Age in 1940

36

Occupation

Merchant

Family, per the Kitade-Bluman list

husband of #745, child Michal (11)

The journey

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

Travelled with, and never given a number

• Michal — child, aged 11

The register recorded visa holders. It did not reliably record the wives and children who travelled on somebody else’s visa, so these people have no entry of their own and cannot be searched for. Where the archive has recovered a name, it is here.

What is known

This Commonwealth of Australia Application for Admission of Relative or Friend to Australia was filed by Dr. Maurycy Szprut of Mater Misericordiae Hospital, Waratah, NSW, to bring relatives of Polish nationality and Jewish faith to Australia. The nominees include Mojzesz Aljona Margolin (born 1904 in Warsaw, described as a refugee), his sister Fajga Margolin (Szprut, born 1918), and Michal Margolin (born 1939), who were then present in Kobe, Japan. Their presence in Kobe indicates they had escaped to Japan, a common destination for Sugihara/Zwartendijk visa recipients transiting via Tsuruga.

APPLICATION FOR ADMISSION OF RELATIVE OR FRIEND TO AUSTRALIA desire permission to introduce to Australia the following person who is of Polish nationality and Jewish I have known the nominee for 15 years

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 6833, Mojzesz Szloma Margolin, born 1904 at Warszawa, who came from Warszawa; the year agrees with the register's compiled age, and his wife Fajga, also on the register (No. 745), and their son Michal follow him on the list.
• 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 204 of the Kobe community's list of refugees and their relatives abroad: aged 37, born at Warsaw, a merchant, Polish; relatives abroad: an uncle, Sam. Mishkin, 959 North Witton Place, Los Angeles, California; a friend, Michael, Mount Airy Road, Croton on Hudson, New York.
• Certificate of Polish citizenship No. M-208, issued to Mojzesz-Szloma Margolin by the Legation of the Polish Republic at Kaunas on 31 July 1940. Issued in place of a passport book: the printed text states that it is granted for want of p…
  The certificate gives the double given name Mojzesz-Szloma exactly as the register has it, and a birth date of 29 May 1904 that agrees with the register's age of 36 in 1940. He is recorded as married, and the register pairs him with No. 745, whose own certificate was issued by the same Legation. One difference is worth setting down: the certificate gives his trade as bookkeeper, where the register records him as a merchant.
• 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 Canberra Maru on 2 July 1941, bound for Australia (the Jewish Community of Kobe's list of departures, July 1941 (JDC Archives, AR 33/44 file 53)). The list reads: "Margolin Mojzesz Szloma — Polish — Kobe — Australia". (Canberra Maru, Kobe, 2 July 1941, destination Australia.)
• Certificate of Polish citizenship (Zaświadczenie/Certificat), No. N-208, issued by the Legation of the Polish Republic at Kaunas to Mojżesz Szloma Margolin, born 29 May 1904 at Warsaw, married, a bookkeeper, dated 31 July 1940; a photogr…
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• National Archives of Australia, NAA A435 1946/4/5501 — Margolin family certificates: MARGOLIN Fajga (b. 18 VI 1908 Warszawa, cert. Nr. M-52 of 26 Jan 1940, accompanied by son Michał b. 18 IV 1929, two photos) and MARGOLIN Mojżesz-Szloma…
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