Boleslaw Jakubowicz received transit visa no. 850 at the Japanese consulate in Kaunas on 2 August 1940. The register records manufacturer, aged 34.
What the register records
Nationality as recorded
Polnisch
Age in 1940
34
Occupation
Manufacturer
Family, per the Kitade-Bluman list
wife Halina (30)
The journey
Reached Japan; reached Shanghai; registered in Kobe for Australia.
Travelled with, and never given a number
Halina — wife, aged 30
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 is a page from the incoming passenger list for the SS Yochow, which arrived in Sydney on 1 September 1946, carrying dozens of Jewish refugees—mostly of Polish, Austrian and German nationality—who had been living in Shanghai and were now emigrating to Australia. Among them are Boleslaw and Halina Jakubowicz, a Polish accountant and his wife, listed with their last permanent residence as Shanghai before resettling in Melbourne. The blog post referencing this manifest frames it as part of the story of roughly 80 Polish Jews who survived the war by reaching Shanghai—a route often associated with holders of Sugihara transit visas through Kaunas and Japan—before eventually being permitted…
This appears to be a joint Polish citizenship certificate (No. 850) for Bolesław Jakubowicz and Halina (née Weyland) Jakubowicz, cropped from a book and credited to Andrew Jakubowicz. The image is heavily blurred, and no direct reference to a Sugihara transit visa or its stamp is legible, though the document is part of a family paper trail associated with the Sugihara/Zwartendijk visa story per the source collection.
This is a Polish citizenship certificate (Zaświadczenie obywatelstwa polskiego) issued to Bolesław Jakubowicz and his wife Halina (née Weyland) by the Representation of the Republic of Poland at the British Consulate in Kaunas. Halina was the sister of Marcel Weyland. The document does not show a Sugihara Japanese transit visa stamp, but relates to the same Kaunas refugee community context.
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… 121, 36, Lods, manuf.; cousin Herfielf State Normal Place Jersey City NY
Joint certificate of Polish citizenship issued to Boleslaw Jakubowicz and his wife Halina, nee Weyland, by the Representation of the Polish Republic at the British Consulate in Kaunas, reproduced on a page of a published account of the K… The certificate names Boleslaw Jakubowicz and enters his wife Halina on the same sheet, with a photograph for each of them; the caption gives her maiden name as Weyland. The register records a wife Halina with this entry, so the given name and the wife's given name both agree beyond the surname.
A document held in the archive's files
Owner's ephemera collection (photographed Jul 2026): Flight and Rescue catalog pages (Soltz cert — Mrs. Shmuel Soltz, Israel; Nowogrodzki spread — full name Markus-Chaim, US non-immigrant visa No.4 of 20 Jul 1940, Soviet visa 114477, Sea…
Prof. Andrew Jakubowicz (University of Technology Sydney), email of 11 August 2026 to the archive, introduced by Arlette Liwer-Stuip — four answers: (1) Josef Kamieniecki's Curaçao sheet may be used, authorised by his son Michael Kamm; J…
Andrew Jakubowicz, 'Escape through the East: the Holocaust, Asian "miracles" and Australia', chapter 5 in Avril Alba and Jan Lanicek (eds), The Palgrave Handbook of Australia and the Holocaust (Palgrave Macmillan, forthcoming; author pro…