Mozes Zomper

Mozes Zomper received transit visa no. 881 at the Japanese consulate in Kaunas on 2 August 1940. Aged 29 in 1940.

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What the register records

Nationality as recorded

Polnisch

Age in 1940

29

Family, per the Kitade-Bluman list

child Karl (14)

The journey

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

Travelled with, and never given a number

• Karl — child, aged 14

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.

Where this comes from

• US arrival manifest: Moszek Jzrael Zomper, Seattle, 1941
  "Seattle Passenger Lists", FamilySearch, entry for Moszek Jzrael Zomper, 1941. Ship: Hikawa Maru. Matched from the Hikawa Maru's Polish-born passenger list (162 people, 35 matched). Register No.881 'Mozes Zomer' records age 29; the manifest gives born 1912, arriving 1941.
• 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 1032); the register line's dropped first letters restored, the names agree — approved by the owner's review, 19 Aug 2026
• JDC Archives, New York, collection AR 33/44 file 53 (the Jewish Community of Ko… — "List of departures for the month of June, 1941" (Jewish Community of Kobe, Migration Office; covering letter p. 12, Kobe, July 1941, HICEM-funded tickets)
  He left Yokohama on the Hikawa Maru on 5 June 1941, bound for Vancouver (the Jewish Community of Kobe's list of departures, June 1941 (JDC Archives, AR 33/44 file 53)). The list reads: Hikawa Maru sheet: "Zomper Moszek — 1". (Hikawa Maru, Yokohama, 5 June 1941, Vancouver.)
• The Hikawa Maru, arriving at Seattle in 1941: list or manifest of alien passengers, the sheet that names Mojsze Szymkiewicz — US National Archives, Record Group 85 (Immigration and Naturalization Service), Passenger and Crew Lists of Ves…
• Arriving at Seattle: the continuation sheet, with the relatives named and the destinations, for the sheet that names Mojsze Szymkiewicz — US National Archives, Record Group 85 (Immigration and Naturalization Service), Passenger and Crew…

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