Kosowski Srul received transit visa no. 1056 at the Japanese consulate in Kaunas on 5 August 1940. The register records farmer, aged 40.
What the register records
Nationality as recorded
Polnisch
Age in 1940
40
Occupation
Farmer
Family, per the Kitade-Bluman list
wife Laba (28), children (Moisze (6), Mira (2))
The journey
Reached Japan; aided by the Polish ambassador Tadeusz Romer; registered in Kobe for USA.
Travelled with, and never given a number
Laba — wife, aged 28
Moisze — child, aged 6
Mira — child, aged 2
The register recorded visa holders. It did not reliably record the wives and children who travelled on somebody else’s visa, so these people have no entry of their own and cannot be searched for. Where the archive has recovered a name, it is here.
Where this comes from
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… 148, 41, Bluden, farmer, Polish; brother in law Eduard Kagan 1309-48 str Brooklyn NY; mother in law Itka Mukuse same address
hunt/familysearch: US arrival manifest: Srul Kosowski, Seattle, 1941 "Seattle Passenger Lists", FamilySearch, entry for Srul Kosowski, 1941. Ship: Hie Maru. Matched from the Hie Maru's Polish-born passenger list (87 people). Register No.1056 'Kosowski rul' records age 40; the manifest gives born 1900, arriving 1941.
M.S. Hie Maru, Kobe 4 May – Yokohama 7 May – Seattle 18 May 1941, sheet 4 of 11 Hie Maru passenger no. 98; Farmer; b. Bluden, Poland; last residence Vilnius, Lithuania; US visa Q.I.V.6267, issued Yokohama, 4-25-1941; to Brooklyn, N.Y; joining Mother-in-law, I. Mukasiej, 1309 48th St. Brooklyn, N.Y.; nearest relative left behind: No relative, Pilsudskiego 34-5 Vilnius Lithuania