Chaim Lwowicz

Chaim Lwowicz received transit visa no. 693 at the Japanese consulate in Kaunas on 1 August 1940. The register records rabbi, aged 32.

What the register records

Nationality as recorded

Polnisch

Age in 1940

32

Occupation

Rabbi

The journey

Reached Japan; registered in Kobe for USA.

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…
  3458; b.1908; from Radzyri
• US arrival manifest: Chaim Lvovic or Lwowicz, Seattle, 1940
  "Seattle Passenger Lists", FamilySearch, entry for Chaim Lvovic or Lwowicz, 1940. Ship: Heian Maru. Matched from the Heian Maru's Polish-born passenger list (198 people, of whom 57 matched the register). Register No.693 'Chaim Lwowicz' records age 32; the manifest gives born 1908, arriving 19
• "Washington, King, Seattle, Passenger Lists, 1890-1957", FamilySearch — index entry for Chaim Lvovic or Lwowicz, 1940: born about 1908, 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 Chaim Lvovic or Lwowicz, born about 1908 in Poland, arriving at Seattle in 1940. The register's compiled line gives 1908, and the two agree. The name occurs once on the register, and a Polish-born passenger landing at Seattle in 1940 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.