Josef Bojarski

Josef Bojarski received transit visa no. 853 at the Japanese consulate in Kaunas on 2 August 1940. The register records clerk, aged 28.

What the register records

Nationality as recorded

Polnisch

Age in 1940

28

Occupation

Clerk

The journey

Reached Japan; aided by the Polish ambassador Tadeusz Romer; 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…
  7902, Lida, b.1912, from Lida
• 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…
  32, 29, Clerk; sister B.Eiferman 309 W 87 str NY
• hunt/familysearch: US arrival manifest: Josif Bojarski, Seattle, 1941
  "Seattle Passenger Lists", FamilySearch, entry for Josif Bojarski, 1941. Ship: Hikawa Maru. Matched from the Hikawa Maru's Polish-born passenger list (162 people, 35 matched). Register No.853 'Josef Bojarski' records age 28; the manifest gives born 1912, arriving 1941.
• A document held in the archive's files