Artur Zeimer

Artur Zeimer received transit visa no. 123 at the Japanese consulate in Kaunas on 29 July 1940. The register records journalist, aged 63.

What the register records

Nationality as recorded

Polnisch

Age in 1940

63

Occupation

Journalist

Family, per the Kitade-Bluman list

husband of #124

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…
  The 1940 Vilna refugee list has, at entry 6554, Artur Zejmer, born 1877 at Podwołczysk, who came from Warszawa; the year agrees with the register's compiled age, and his wife Franciszka, also on the register (No. 124), follows him on the list.
• 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 300 of the Kobe community's list of refugees and their relatives abroad: born 1877 at Podwoloczysk, Polish; relatives abroad: a daughter, Stefania Rot, 321 East 15th Street, Infirmarie, New York; a son, Oskar Rot, 1442 St Raphael Chapel Street, New Haven, Connecticut.
• 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 731 of the Kobe Jewish Community's refugee register: aged 64, born at Podwoloczysk, a journalist, who arrived in Japan from Vilnius on 23 February 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 23 Feb 1941 (line 123)
• Declaration of Intention No. 511142, US District Court for the Southern District of New York, 9 December 1941 (NARA RG 21, box 386): Artur Zeimer, b. 16 Oct 1877 Podwołoczyska; departed Yokohama, arrived San Francisco 21 June 1941; wife…
  Declaration of Intention No. 511142, filed in the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York on 9 December 1941 (NARA, RG 21, box 386): Artur Zeimer, born 16 October 1877 at Podwołoczyska, left Yokohama and arrived at San Francisco on 21 June 1941; living at 3868 Putnam Avenue, the Bronx; last foreign residence Vilna; wife Franciska, born 15 October 1889 at Monasterzyska, married 12 May 1906; daughter Stephanie, born 1 March 1912, of New Haven. Found by David Rosen in the Ancestry index, September 2026; the scan is Ancestry's and is not reproduced.
• "California, San Francisco, Passenger Lists, 1893-1953", FamilySearch — index entry for Artur Zeimer, 1941: born about 1877, Poland. Digitised from NARA microfilm publication M1410 (passenger lists of vessels arriving at San Francisco).…
  FamilySearch's index of the San Francisco passenger lists, read by the archive on 20 September 2026, has Artur Zeimer, born about 1877 in Poland, arriving at San Francisco in 1941. The register's compiled line gives 1877, and the two agree. The name occurs once on the register, and a Polish-born passenger landing at San Francisco 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.
• Manifest of alien passengers, SS Rakuyo Maru, sailing from Yokohama 31 May 1941, arrived San Francisco date not read (admitted at San Francisco 21 June 1941) (US National Archives, M1410, film 370; read on FamilySearch's copy)
  The Rakuyo Maru's manifest, Yokohama to San Francisco, admitted 21 June 1941 (US National Archives, read on FamilySearch's copy), lists Artur Zeimer, 64, a journalist born in Podwołoczyska and last living in Wilno, travelling with his wife Franciszka to their daughter Stefania Roth in New York.

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