Boleslaw Jakubowicz

Boleslaw Jakubowicz received transit visa no. 850 at the Japanese consulate in Kaunas on 2 August 1940. The register records manufacturer, aged 34.

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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.

JAKUBOWICZ Boleslaw ... Accountant ... Poland ... Melbourne JAKUBOWICZ Halina

Zaświadczenie Certificat

Zaświadczenie obywatelstwa polskiego dla Bolesława Jakubowicza i jego żony Haliny z domu Weyland – siostry Marcela, wydane przez Przedstawicielstwo Rzeczypospolitej Polskiej przy Konsulacie Brytyjskim w Kownie.

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 2473, Bolesław Jakubowicz, born 1905 at Łódź, who came from Łódź; the year is within two of the register's compiled age, and his wife Halina follows him on the list, as the register names her with him.
• 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…
  Entry 121 of the Kobe community's list of refugees and their relatives abroad: aged 36, born at Lods, a manufacturer; relatives abroad: a cousin, Herfielf, State Normal Place, Jersey City, New York.
• 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 1518); the names closely match this register line — approved by the owner's review, 19 Aug 2026 — the ledger reads: Jakubowicz Boleslaw, office clerk, born 24 December 1905 Lodz, married — wife HALINA born 15 August 1909 Kalisz; 1248/8 Rue Lafayette; registered 14 December 1941 on a passport issued by the Shanghai consulate itself (J-32, 4 December 1941).
• 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 Aleksander B. Skotnicki's Ch…
  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.
• Telegram filed at Vilnius and addressed to JEWCOM, care of Halina Jakubowicz, Kobe, concerning David Apotheker. Supplied to the archive by Jacob Rosen-Koenigsbuch.
  The telegram, filed at Vilnius, is addressed to the Kobe Jewish committee care of Halina Jakubowicz. This entry's wife Halina — named on the couple's joint certificate of Polish citizenship and in the Shanghai consular ledger, born Kalisz 1909 — was in Japan with her husband in 1941, where the Kobe relatives list records him, and the family's own account has them in Kobe until the September 1941 sailing to Shanghai. The Halina Jakubowicz taking the committee's messages is therefore recorded here as his wife: the full name, the place and the year agree. The document itself is held on the entry of the man it concerns, Dawid Apotheker, No. 1654.
• UNRRA China Office, S-1132-0000-0181, registration of Polish rabbis and rabbinical students, their lists and sailings, Shanghai 1945–1946 (UN Archives, AG-018-001)
  In April 1946 the American Joint Distribution Committee's migration department in Shanghai processed Boleslaw Jakubowicz and his family, of 482/5 Dalny Road, for Sydney. (United Nations Archives, UNRRA China Office records.)
• List of persons processed by the American Joint Distribution Committee's migration department, Shanghai, 1–30 April 1946 (United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, Holocaust Survivors and Victims Database, list 48686)
  The American Joint Distribution Committee's migration department in Shanghai processed Boleslaw Jakubowicz for emigration in April 1946, according to its list for that month, indexed by the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. The name occurs once on the register, and the register already records this line's arrival in Shanghai.
• La-karov ve-la-rachok, 31 March 1946 — the Far Eastern Palestine Committee's list of Jewish refugees in Shanghai (National Library of Israel, Historical Jewish Press)
  The Far Eastern Palestine Committee's list of Jewish refugees in Shanghai, printed by the Jewish Agency Search Bureau's bulletin La-karov ve-la-rachok on 31 March 1946, lists Boleslau Jacubowitz: born 1905 at Lodz, a bookkeeper, arrived in 1941 from Lith.; the year and the town agree with the 1940 Vilna refugee list, the Kobe community's list of refugees and their relatives (National Library of Israel, Historical Jewish Press).
• 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.
• 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…
• Jakubowicz blog: SS Yochow passenger manifest, arrival Sydney 1 Sep 1946 — the ~80 Polish Jews who reached Australia
• Bolesław Jakubowicz & Halina née Weyland — joint citizenship certificate (No.850), cropped from book (courtesy Andrew Jakubowicz)
• 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 Aleksander B. Skotnicki's Ch…
• Shanghai Ledger, page 190 (left): entries 1514-1521, registered 14 December 1941 on passports issued by the Shanghai consulate itself 2-5 December 1941: Magid Jankiel (student, b. 1920 Bransk), Zakulnik Izrael Dawid (shop assistant, b. 1…

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