Kosowski Srul

Kosowski Srul received transit visa no. 1056 at the Japanese consulate in Kaunas on 5 August 1940. The register records farmer, aged 40.

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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…
  Entry 148 of the Kobe community's list of refugees and their relatives abroad: aged 41, born at Bluden, a farmer, Polish; relatives abroad: a brother-in-law, Eduard Kagan, 1309 48th Street, Brooklyn, New York; a mother-in-law, Itka Mukuse, at the same address.
• 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 — transcribed for the Immigrant Ships Transcribers Guild by David Rosen
  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
• M.S. Hie Maru, Kobe 4 May – Yokohama 7 May – Seattle 18 May 1941, sheet 4 of 11 — transcribed for the Immigrant Ships Transcribers Guild by David Rosen
  Hie Maru passenger no. 99; 28y 10m; Housewife; b. Baranowicz, Poland; last residence Vilnius, Lithuania; US visa Q.I.V.6268, 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; wife of No. 1056 (Bluman: "Laba, 28"); not separately on the register
• M.S. Hie Maru, Kobe 4 May – Yokohama 7 May – Seattle 18 May 1941, sheet 4 of 11 — transcribed for the Immigrant Ships Transcribers Guild by David Rosen
  Hie Maru passenger no. 100; b. Baranowicz, Poland; last residence Vilnius, Lithuania; US visa Q.I.V.6269, issued Yokohama, 4-25-1941; to Brooklyn, N.Y; joining Grandmother, I Mukasiej, 1309 48th St. Brooklyn, N.Y.; nearest relative left behind: No relative, Pilsudskiego 34-5 Vilnius Lithuania; son of No. 1056; not separately on the register
• M.S. Hie Maru, Kobe 4 May – Yokohama 7 May – Seattle 18 May 1941, sheet 4 of 11 — transcribed for the Immigrant Ships Transcribers Guild by David Rosen
  Hie Maru passenger no. 101; 2y 11m; b. Baranowicz, Poland; last residence Vilnius, Lithuania; US visa Q.I.V.6270, issued Yokohama, 4-25-1941; to Brooklyn, N.Y; joining Grandmother, I. Mukasiej, 1309 48th St. Brooklyn, N.Y.; nearest relative left behind: No relative, Pilsudskiego 34-5 Vilnius Lithuania; daughter of No. 1056; not separately on the register
• "Washington, King, Seattle, Passenger Lists, 1890-1957", FamilySearch — index entry for Srul Kosowski, 1941: born about 1900, Poland. Digitised from NARA microfilm publication M1383 (passenger and crew lists of vessels arriving at Seattl…
  FamilySearch's index of the Seattle passenger lists, read by the archive on 20 September 2026, has Srul Kosowski, born about 1900 in Poland, arriving at Seattle in 1941. The register's compiled line gives 1900, 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.
• JDC Archives, New York, collection AR 33/44 file 53 (the Jewish Community of Kobe's returns to the JDC, 1941; Set I, item 00761) — Set… — "List of refugees who left Japan to places other than Shanghai in the month of May 1941", Nos. 1–321
  He left Yokohama on the Hie Maru on 7 May 1941, bound for the USA (the Jewish Community of Kobe's list of departures, May 1941 (JDC Archives, AR 33/44 file 53)). The list reads: No. 23–26: "Kosowski Luba, ″ Srul, ″ Mojze, ″ Mira". (Hie Maru, Yokohama, 7 May 1941.)
• A ship, arriving at Seattle in 1941: list or manifest of alien passengers, the sheet that names Arja Kronenberg — US National Archives, Record Group 85 (Immigration and Naturalization Service), Passenger and Crew Lists of Vessels Arrivin…
• Arriving at Seattle: the continuation sheet, with the relatives named and the destinations, for the sheet that names Are Kronenberg — US National Archives, Record Group 85 (Immigration and Naturalization Service), Passenger and Crew List…

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