Neuwelt Alfred received transit visa no. 1399 at the Japanese consulate in Kaunas on 7 August 1940. The register records factory manager, aged 52.
What the register records
Nationality as recorded
Polnisch
Age in 1940
52
Occupation
Factory Manager
Family, per the Kitade-Bluman list
wife Maria (43);,children (Ewa (18), Michal (12), Ann (7))
The journey
Reached Japan; aided by the Polish ambassador Tadeusz Romer; registered in Kobe for USA.
Travelled with, and never given a number
Maria — wife, aged 43
Ewa — child, aged 18
Michal — child, aged 12
Ann — child, aged 7
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… 223, 53, Lodz, manufact., Polish
hunt/familysearch: US arrival manifest: Alfred Neuwelt, Seattle, 1941 "Seattle Passenger Lists", FamilySearch, entry for Alfred Neuwelt, 1941. Ship: Hie Maru. Matched from the Hie Maru's Polish-born passenger list (87 people). Register No.1399 'Nejwelt Alfred' records age 52; the manifest gives born 1889, arriving 1941.