Paulina Szweber

Paulina Szweber received transit visa no. 100 at the Japanese consulate in Kaunas on 29 July 1940. Aged 63 in 1940.

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What the register records

Nationality as recorded

Polnisch

Age in 1940

63

The journey

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

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 181 of the Kobe Jewish Community's refugee register: aged 64, born at Brzesc, who arrived in Japan on 25 January 1941.
• US arrival manifest: Paulina Szweber, Seattle, 1941
  "Seattle Passenger Lists", FamilySearch, entry for Paulina Szweber, 1941. Ship: Hikawa Maru. Matched from the Hikawa Maru's Polish-born passenger list (162 people, 35 matched). Register No.100 'Paulina zweber' records age 63; the manifest gives born 1878, arriving 1941.
• 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 100)
• "Washington, King, Seattle, Passenger Lists, 1890-1957", FamilySearch — index entry for Paulina Szweber, 1941: born about 1878, Polish. Digitised from NARA microfilm publication M1383 (passenger and crew lists of vessels arriving at Seat…
  FamilySearch's index of the Seattle passenger lists, read by the archive on 20 September 2026, has Paulina Szweber, born about 1878 in Polish, arriving at Seattle in 1941. The register's compiled line gives 1877, and the two are 1 year apart. The name occurs once on the register, and a passenger born in Poland 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.
• The 1950 United States census (US National Archives, 1950census.archives.gov)
  In April 1950 the United States census found her in the Bronx, New York, aged 72, a widow born in Poland, working as a finisher in a coat and suit factory (National Archives, 1950 census, enumeration district 3-1971, sheet 72).
• "Washington, King, Seattle, Passenger Lists, 1890-1957", FamilySearch — index entry for Paulina Szweber, 1941: born about 1878, Polish. Digitised from NARA microfilm publication M1383 (passenger and crew lists of vessels arriving at Seat…
  The manifest sheet itself has her on the Hikawa Maru, which sailed from Yokohama on 13 February 1941 and reached Seattle on the 25th: Paulina Szweber, aged 63, married, Polish, born at Brześć, last residence Kaunas, on an American non-immigrant visa, No. 32, issued at Kaunas on 22 July 1940, with the Gilinski, Odes and Wasser families of the register on the same page. The age agrees with the register's compiled line. (The sheet is in the National Archives' passenger and crew lists of vessels arriving at Seattle, microfilm M1383; the archive read FamilySearch's copy.)
• The Hikawa Maru, arriving at Seattle in 1941: list or manifest of alien passengers, the sheet that names Paulina Szweber — US National Archives, Record Group 85 (Immigration and Naturalization Service), Passenger and Crew Lists of Vessel…
• The Hikawa Maru, arriving at Seattle in 1941: the continuation sheet, with the relatives named and the destinations, for the sheet that names Paulina Szweber — US National Archives, Record Group 85 (Immigration and Naturalization Service…

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