Wincenty Twierski

Wincenty Twierski received transit visa no. 991 at the Japanese consulate in Kaunas on 3 August 1940. The register records worker, aged 41.

What the register records

Nationality as recorded

Polnisch

Age in 1940

41

Occupation

Worker

The journey

Reached Japan; reached Shanghai.

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 7345, Wincenty Twerski, born 1899 at Warszawa, who had come from Warszawa; the year agrees with the register's compiled age.
• 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 16 of the Kobe community's list of refugees and their relatives abroad: aged 52, born at Warsaw, a worker, Polish; relatives abroad: a cousin, R. Goldberg, New York City; J. Goldberg, 95 (illegible), Brooklyn, New York.

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