Karolina Ostrower

Karolina Ostrower received transit visa no. 131 at the Japanese consulate in Kaunas on 29 July 1940. Aged 38 in 1940.

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What the register records

Nationality as recorded

Polnisch

Age in 1940

38

Family, per the Kitade-Bluman list

wife of #128

The journey

Reached Japan.

Where this comes from

• US arrival manifest: Karolina Ostrower, Seattle, 1940
  "Seattle Passenger Lists", FamilySearch, entry for Karolina Ostrower, 1940. Ship: Hikawa Maru. Matched from the Hikawa Maru's Polish-born passenger list (162 people, 35 matched). Register No.131 'Karolina Ostrower' records age 38; the manifest gives born 1901, arriving 1940.
• "Washington, King, Seattle, Passenger Lists, 1890-1957", FamilySearch — index entry for Karolina Ostrower, 1940: born about 1901, Polish. Digitised from NARA microfilm publication M1383 (passenger and crew lists of vessels arriving at Se…
  FamilySearch's index of the Seattle passenger lists, read by the archive on 20 September 2026, has Karolina Ostrower, born about 1901 in Polish, arriving at Seattle in 1940. The register's compiled line gives 1902, and the two are 1 year apart. The name occurs once on the register, and a passenger born in Poland landing at Seattle in 1940 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 Hikawa Maru, sailing from Yokohama 5 Nov 1940, arrived Seattle 17 Nov 1940 (US National Archives, M1383, roll 258; read on FamilySearch's copy)
  The National Archives' Seattle passenger list (FamilySearch's copy) shows Karolina Ostrower, 38, born in Poland, landing at Seattle from Yokohama on the Hikawa Maru on 17 November 1940 with her husband and daughter, on an American transit visa issued at Osaka. They were bound for Buenos Aires, and a note on the list records that they left New York on the SS Argentina on 13 December 1940.
• The Hikawa Maru, arriving at Seattle in 1940: list or manifest of alien passengers, the sheet that names Karolina Ostrower — US National Archives, Record Group 85 (Immigration and Naturalization Service), Passenger and Crew Lists of Vess…
• The Hikawa Maru, arriving at Seattle in 1940: the continuation sheet, with the relatives named and the destinations, for the sheet that names Karolina Ostrower — US National Archives, Record Group 85 (Immigration and Naturalization Servi…

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