Franciska Zeimer

Franciska Zeimer received transit visa no. 124 at the Japanese consulate in Kaunas on 29 July 1940. Aged 51 in 1940.

What the register records

Nationality as recorded

Polnisch

Age in 1940

51

Family, per the Kitade-Bluman list

wife of #123

The journey

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

Where this comes from

• 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 124)
• 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 Franciszka Zeimer, 1941: born about 1889, Poland. Digitised from NARA microfilm publication M1410 (passenger lists of vessels arriving at San Francis…
  FamilySearch's index of the San Francisco passenger lists, read by the archive on 20 September 2026, has Franciszka Zeimer, born about 1889 in Poland, arriving at San Francisco in 1941. The register's compiled line gives 1889, 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.
• New York City death certificates, 1944–1946 (Municipal Archives of the City of New York; indexed from the certificates on FamilySearch, "New York, New York City Municipal Deaths, 1795–1949")
  Her death certificate closes her story: Franciska Zeimer died in the Bronx on 30 November 1946, aged 57. The certificate, held by the Municipal Archives of the City of New York and indexed from the document by FamilySearch, names her father David Katz and her husband Arthur, the husband of the couple's 1941 declaration of intention and the maiden name her daughter's Social Security record gives for her; the age gives the year of birth the register's compilers recorded. Read in the index, October 2026.
• 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 same manifest lists Franciszka Zeimer, 52, born in Monasterzyska, travelling with her husband Artur to their daughter in New York.

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