Bider Gert
Visa no. 1029 · Kaunas, 3 August 1940
Bider Gert received transit visa no. 1029 at the Japanese consulate in Kaunas on 3 August 1940. The register records director, aged 55.
What the register records
- Nationality as recorded
- Polnisch
- Age in 1940
- 55
- Occupation
- Director
The journey
Reached Japan; registered in Kobe for USA.
Where this comes from
- Manifest of alien passengers, SS Tatuta Maru, sailing port and date not read, arrived San Francisco November 19 (uncertain), 1940 (US National Archives, M1410, film 366; read on FamilySearch's copy)
The National Archives' passenger list of the Tatuta Maru (FamilySearch's copy) records Giersz Bider, 55, a director born in Drohiczyn and last living in Warsaw, landing at San Francisco in November 1940 on a US transit visa issued in Moscow, bound for the Joint Distribution Committee in New York. He had been in the United States before, in Chicago from 1917.
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