Prochnik Rela

Visa no. 1292 · Kaunas, 6 August 1940

Prochnik Rela received transit visa no. 1292 at the Japanese consulate in Kaunas on 6 August 1940. Aged 40 in 1940.

Documents

Document — Prochnik Rela — The HEIAN, arriving at Seattle in 1940: list or manifest of alien passengers, the sheet that names Saoma or Sloma Berman — US National Archives, Record Group 85 (Immigration and Naturalization Service), Passenger and Crew Lists of Vessels Arriving at Seattle, microfilm publication M1383, roll 257, frame 296 of the file unit “Sept. 26, 1940, SS Shellco-Nov. 7, 1940, SS Shellco” (NAID 553884999). Public domain; credit: National Archives at Washington, DC.

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What the register records

Nationality as recorded: Polnisch
Age in 1940: 40
Family, per the Kitade-Bluman list: wife of #1294

The journey

Reached Japan; registered in Kobe for USA.

Where this comes from

US arrival manifest: Rela Prochnik, Seattle, 1941
"Seattle Passenger Lists", FamilySearch, entry for Rela Prochnik, 1941. Ship: Hikawa Maru. Matched from the Hikawa Maru's Polish-born passenger list (162 people, 35 matched). Register No.1292 'Prochnik ela' records age 40; the manifest gives born 1901, arriving 1941.
The HEIAN, arriving at Seattle in 1940: list or manifest of alien passengers, the sheet that names Saoma or Sloma Berman — US National Archives, Record Group 85 (Immigration and Naturalization Service), Passenger and Crew Lists of Vessel…

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