Mowsza Wilenczyk received transit visa no. 820 at the Japanese consulate in Kaunas on 2 August 1940. The register records journalist, aged 28.
What the register records
Nationality as recorded
Polnisch
Age in 1940
28
Occupation
Journalist
The journey
Reached Japan; aided by the Polish ambassador Tadeusz Romer; registered in Kobe for Palestine.
Where this comes from
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… 215, 1913 Kleck; cousin William Janowitz Nassau NP Bahamas 282 Bay Str; uncle I.Wileng 405 Rockway Parkway Brooklyn; aunt E.Ciechanowitz Ramath Gan T.A.; b.Wilenski Avenido 1.115 Cordoba Mexico
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… no.741, age 29, Kleck, Journalist, arr 2.2 Vilno