Moses Segal

Moses Segal received transit visa no. 802 at the Japanese consulate in Kaunas on 2 August 1940. The register records student, aged 19.

What the register records

Nationality as recorded

Polnisch

Age in 1940

19

Occupation

Student

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 5539, Mozes Segał, born 1921, who had come from Warsaw; the year agrees with the register's age.
• "California, San Francisco, Passenger Lists, 1893-1953", FamilySearch — index entry for Mozes Segal, 1940: born about 1921, Poland. Digitised from NARA microfilm publication M1410 (passenger lists of vessels arriving at San Francisco). R…
  FamilySearch's index of the San Francisco passenger lists, read by the archive on 20 September 2026, has Mozes Segal, born about 1921 in Poland, arriving at San Francisco in 1940. The register's compiled line gives 1921, and the two agree. The name occurs once on the register, and a Polish-born passenger landing at San Francisco in 1940 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, M.S. Kamakura Maru, sailing from Kobe November 18 (uncertain), 1940, arrived San Francisco date not read (US National Archives, M1410, film 366; read on FamilySearch's copy)
  The National Archives' passenger list of the Kamakura Maru (FamilySearch's copy) records Mozes Segal, 19, a student born in Warsaw, sailing from Kobe in November 1940 on a Polish quota immigration visa issued in Tokyo, bound for an uncle in Pensacola, Florida. He named his father, Jankiel Segal of Warsaw, as his nearest relative.
• The numbered Sugihara visa list, the page of 2 August 1940 carrying Nos. 795 to 865 (among them No. 805, Szaps Jaskolka), photographed beside a ruler.

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