Chil Mojsze Cytrynowski

Chil Mojsze Cytrynowski received transit visa no. 776 at the Japanese consulate in Kaunas on 2 August 1940. The register records union organizer, aged 46.

What the register records

Nationality as recorded

Polnisch

Age in 1940

46

Occupation

Union Organizer

Family, per the Kitade-Bluman list

father of #777

The journey

Reached Japan; registered in Kobe for USA.

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 8620, Chil Mojsze Cytrynowski, born 1894 at Lodz, who had come from Warszawa; the year agrees with the register's compiled age, and Łódź agrees with what the archive already holds.
• 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 103 of the Kobe Jewish Community's refugee register: aged 47, born at Lodz, a clerk, who arrived in Japan from Kaunas on 23 February 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 23 Feb 1941 (line 776)
• "California, San Francisco, Passenger Lists, 1893-1953", FamilySearch — index entry for Chil-Mojsze Cytrynowski, 1941: born about 1895, Poland. Digitised from NARA microfilm publication M1410 (passenger lists of vessels arriving at San F…
  FamilySearch's index of the San Francisco passenger lists, read by the archive on 20 September 2026, has Chil-Mojsze Cytrynowski, born about 1895 in Poland, arriving at San Francisco in 1941. The register's compiled line gives 1894, and the two are 1 year apart. The name occurs once on the register, and a Polish-born passenger landing at San Francisco in 1941 fits the route through Japan, so the entry is taken as this person's under the archive's rule of 19 September 2026 for records from the route.
• Manifest of alien passengers, SS Tatuta Maru, sailing from Yokohama 6 March 1941, arrived San Francisco 20 March 1941 (US National Archives, M1410, film 368; read on FamilySearch's copy)
  He arrived at San Francisco on 20 March 1941 aboard the Tatuta Maru from Yokohama with his seventeen-year-old son, both on US visitor's visas issued at Kaunas in July 1940; the manifest gives his birthplace as Łódź, names his wife Miriam Leja, left in Warsaw, and gives his destination as his sister in Brooklyn (manifest held by the US National Archives, read on FamilySearch's copy).
• Leads — the Yiddish press of New York and Latin America, 1945–1975 (National Library of Israel, Historical Jewish Press)
  A possible record, not yet confirmed as this person: a Yechiel Moshe Citrinowski was active in the Labor Zionist movement in New York from 1941, when the Forverts listed him as a speaker, to the 1960s (National Library of Israel, Historical Jewish Press).

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