Mojzesz Lipszyc

Mojzesz Lipszyc received transit visa no. 952 at the Japanese consulate in Kaunas on 3 August 1940. The register records decorator, aged 30.

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What the register records

Nationality as recorded

Polnisch

Age in 1940

30

Occupation

Decorator

The journey

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

Where this comes from

• The JEWCOM register — the refugee register kept by the Refugee Committee of the Jewish Community of Kobe (Ashkenazim) at No. 6 Yamamoto-dori, 1-chome, whose cable address was 'JEWCOM Kobe'. Eighty-four pages on the committee's own printe…
  Entry 110 of the Kobe Jewish Community's refugee register: aged 31, born at Lodz, a journalist, who arrived in Japan on 25 January 1941.
• US arrival manifest: Maurycy Mojzesz Lipszyc, Seattle, 1941
  "Seattle Passenger Lists", FamilySearch, entry for Maurycy Mojzesz Lipszyc, 1941. Ship: Heian Maru. Matched from the Heian Maru's Polish-born passenger list (198 people, of whom 57 matched the register). Register No.952 'Mojzesz Lipszyc' records age 30; the manifest gives born 1911, arriving
• M/S Heian Maru manifest, sheet 21 — List or Manifest of Alien Passengers, sailed Yokohama 27 May 1941, arrived Seattle 7 June 1941, all thirty admitted (NARA M1383, roll 262, Seattle Passenger Lists; retrieved with the owner signed in).…
  M/S Heian Maru, Yokohama 27 May - Seattle 7 June 1941; line 20: 30, journalist, b. Lodz, last residence Vilnius — register row reads Mojzesz Lipszyc
• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, Holocaust Survivors and Victims Database — the Flight and Rescue electronic dataset (source 20725): USHMM's own transcription of the Kaunas register, 2,140 persons with citizenship, visa type, iss…
  USHMM Flight and Rescue dataset: arrived in Japan 25 Jan 1941 (line 952)
• "Washington, King, Seattle, Passenger Lists, 1890-1957", FamilySearch — index entry for Maurycy Mojzesz Lipszyc, 1941: born about 1911, Poland. Digitised from NARA microfilm publication M1383 (passenger and crew lists of vessels arriving…
  FamilySearch's index of the Seattle passenger lists, read by the archive on 20 September 2026, has Maurycy Mojzesz Lipszyc, born about 1911 in Poland, arriving at Seattle in 1941. The register's compiled line gives 1910, and the two are 1 year apart. The name occurs once on the register, and a Polish-born passenger landing at Seattle in 1941 fits the route through Japan, so the entry is taken as this person's under the archive's rule of 19 September 2026 for records from the route.
• 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… — "List of refugees who left Japan to places other than Shanghai in the month of May 1941", Nos. 1–321
  He left Yokohama on the Heian Maru on 27 May 1941, bound for Canada (the Jewish Community of Kobe's list of departures, May 1941 (JDC Archives, AR 33/44 file 53)). The list reads: "Lipszyc Maurycy Mojzesz". (Heian Maru, Yokohama, 27 May 1941.)
• Haaretz, 2 February 1942, and HaTzofe, 3 February 1942 (National Library of Israel, Historical Jewish Press)
  Mojżesz Lipszyc is on the Bombay list of Polish refugees bound for Palestine printed on 19 September 1941 and on the list of immigrants on their way from India printed by Haaretz on 2 February 1942 (National Library of Israel, Historical Jewish Press).
• 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 7452, Lipszyc Maurycy Mojzesz, born 1910 at Łódź, who came from Warsaw; the year agrees with the age the register gives, and the town with what the archive already holds.
• The Heian Maru, arriving at Seattle in 1941: list or manifest of alien passengers, the sheet that names Emanuel Distler — US National Archives, Record Group 85 (Immigration and Naturalization Service), Passenger and Crew Lists of Vessels…
• The Heian Maru, arriving at Seattle in 1941: the continuation sheet, with the relatives named and the destinations, for the sheet that names Norbert Henryk Gorwic — US National Archives, Record Group 85 (Immigration and Naturalization Se…

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