Josef Bojarski

Josef Bojarski received transit visa no. 853 at the Japanese consulate in Kaunas on 2 August 1940. The register records clerk, aged 28.

What the register records

Nationality as recorded

Polnisch

Age in 1940

28

Occupation

Clerk

The journey

Reached Japan; aided by the Polish ambassador Tadeusz Romer; 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…
  7902, Lida, b.1912, from Lida
• 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…
  32, 29, Clerk; sister B.Eiferman 309 W 87 str NY
• US arrival manifest: Josif Bojarski, Seattle, 1941
  "Seattle Passenger Lists", FamilySearch, entry for Josif Bojarski, 1941. Ship: Hikawa Maru. Matched from the Hikawa Maru's Polish-born passenger list (162 people, 35 matched). Register No.853 'Josef Bojarski' records age 28; the manifest gives born 1912, arriving 1941.
• "Washington, King, Seattle, Passenger Lists, 1890-1957", FamilySearch — index entry for Josif Bojarski, 1941: born about 1912, Poland. Digitised from NARA microfilm publication M1383 (passenger and crew lists of vessels arriving at Seatt…
  FamilySearch's index of the Seattle passenger lists, read by the archive on 20 September 2026, has Josif Bojarski, born about 1912 in Poland, arriving at Seattle in 1941. The register's compiled line gives 1912, and the two agree. 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.
• A document held in the archive's files