Anatol Swieca

Anatol Swieca received transit visa no. 748 at the Japanese consulate in Kaunas on 1 August 1940. The register records lawyer, aged 34.

What the register records

Nationality as recorded

Polnisch

Age in 1940

34

Occupation

Lawyer

Family, per the Kitade-Bluman list

wife Tesfila (38), son Andrzej (5)

The journey

Reached Japan; reached Shanghai; registered in Kobe for Australia.

Travelled with, and never given a number

• Tesfila — wife, aged 38
• Andrzej — son, aged 5

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.

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…
  5225; b.Lb99
• 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…
  295, 35, Warsaw, lawyer; uncle Petshaft Passaic NJ, aunt Eisenberg Tel Aviv
• The Shanghai Ledger — register of Polish citizens kept by the Consulate of Poland in Shanghai, 1934-1943 (original at the Archives of the Polish Ministry of Foreign Affairs, ref. 43/2003; digitised by the Library of Congress; indexed as…
  Registered with the Polish Consulate in Shanghai (ledger entry 1075); the names closely match this register line — approved by the owner's review, 19 Aug 2026 — LEDGER ENTRY READ: Swieca Anatol, ADVOCATE (adwokat), of Warsaw, married; registered 26 July 1941; 1269 Rue Lafayette; on a Warsaw passport of 12 August 1937 (Bu-5347/37) extended by the Polish Embassy in Tokyo 29 May 1941, valid to 29 May 1942.
• Shanghai Ledger, page 135 (left): entries 1074-1081, registered 26 July 1941: Schaja Raisa (b. 25 Dec 1900 Tomsk), Swieca Anatol (advocate, Warsaw), Rozenbaum Teodor (merchant, b. 1906 Warsaw), Choczner Joel-Dawid (merchant, b. 19 Feb 19…
• Shanghai Ledger, page 135 (right): entries 1074-1081, registered 26 July 1941: Schaja Raisa (b. 25 Dec 1900 Tomsk), Swieca Anatol (advocate, Warsaw), Rozenbaum Teodor (merchant, b. 1906 Warsaw), Choczner Joel-Dawid (merchant, b. 19 Feb 1…