Neuwelt Alfred

Neuwelt Alfred received transit visa no. 1399 at the Japanese consulate in Kaunas on 7 August 1940. The register records factory manager, aged 52.

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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…
  Entry 223 of the Kobe community's list of refugees and their relatives abroad: aged 53, born at Lodz, a manufacturer, Polish.
• 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.
• "Washington, King, Seattle, Passenger Lists, 1890-1957", FamilySearch — index entry for Alfred Neuwelt, 1941: born about 1889, Poland. Digitised from NARA microfilm publication M1383 (passenger and crew lists of vessels arriving at Seatt…
  FamilySearch's index of the Seattle passenger lists, read by the archive on 20 September 2026, has Alfred Neuwelt, born about 1889 in Poland, arriving at Seattle in 1941. The register's compiled line gives 1888, and the two are 1 year apart. The name occurs once on the register, and a Polish-born passenger landing at Seattle 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.
• JDC Archives, New York, collection AR 33/44 file 53 (the Jewish Community of Kobe's returns to the JDC, 1941; Set I, item 00761) — Set… — "List of refugees who left Japan to places other than Shanghai in the month of May 1941", Nos. 1–321
  He left Yokohama on the Hie Maru on 7 May 1941, bound for the USA (the Jewish Community of Kobe's list of departures, May 1941 (JDC Archives, AR 33/44 file 53)). The list reads: No. 36–40: "Neuwelt Alfred, ″ Maria, ″ Eva, ″ Michel, ″ Anna". (Hie Maru, Yokohama, 7 May 1941.)
• The Hie Maru, arriving at Seattle in 1941: list or manifest of alien passengers, the sheet that names Alfred Neuwelt — US National Archives, Record Group 85 (Immigration and Naturalization Service), Passenger and Crew Lists of Vessels Ar…
• Arriving at Seattle: the continuation sheet, with the relatives named and the destinations, for the sheet that names Neuwelt Alfred — US National Archives, Record Group 85 (Immigration and Naturalization Service), Passenger and Crew List…

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