Henryk Wachsmacher

Henryk Wachsmacher received transit visa no. 860 at the Japanese consulate in Kaunas on 2 August 1940. The register records clerk, aged 36.

What the register records

Nationality as recorded

Polnisch

Age in 1940

36

Occupation

Clerk

The journey

Reached Japan; aided by the Polish ambassador Tadeusz Romer; registered in Kobe for Burma.

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 6134, Henryk Warkmacher, born 1904 at Kraków, who had come from Kraków; the year agrees with the register's age and Kraków agrees with the archive's other records.
• 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 18 of the Kobe community's list of refugees and their relatives abroad: aged 37, born at Krakow, a clerk, Polish; relatives abroad: an uncle, (illegible) Wingold Avenue, New York; a cousin, Dr S. Wachsmacher (rest illegible).
• JDC Archives, New York, collection AR 33/44 file 53 (the Jewish Community of Kobe's returns to the JDC, 1941; Set I, item 00761) — Set I pp. 5–7 — "List… — "List of persons who left Japan for Shanghai in the month of July 1941", Nos. 1–15
  He left Kobe on the Taiyo Maru on 18 July 1941, bound for Burma (the Jewish Community of Kobe's list of departures, July 1941 (JDC Archives, AR 33/44 file 53)). The list reads: "Wachsmacher Henryk". (Taiyo Maru, Kobe, 18 July 1941, destination Burma.)
• 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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