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.

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…
  No.110, age 31, b. Lodz, Journalist, arr. 25.1.
• hunt/familysearch: 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)