Donski Ichok

Visa no. 1416 · Kaunas, 7 August 1940

Donski Ichok received transit visa no. 1416 at the Japanese consulate in Kaunas on 7 August 1940. The register records merchant, aged 37.

Documents

Document — Donski Ichok — 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 297 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: 37
Occupation: Merchant

The journey

Reached Japan.

Where this comes from

List of Refugees, Vilna, 1940 — JDC Archives, New York, collection AR 33/44, file 00876. The contemporary register of Polish Jewish refugees in Lithuania, running to more than nine thousand numbered entries; the fullest independent check…
The 1940 Vilna refugee list has, at entry 7799, Icchok Donski, born 1903 at Sosnowiec, who had come from Sosnowiec; the year agrees with the register's compiled age.
US arrival manifest: Icchok Donski, Seattle, 1940
"Seattle Passenger Lists", FamilySearch, entry for Icchok Donski, 1940. Ship: Heian Maru. Matched from the Heian Maru's Polish-born passenger list (198 people, of whom 57 matched the register). Register No.1416 'Donski Ichok' records age 37; the manifest gives born 1903, arriving 1940. Confid
"Washington, King, Seattle, Passenger Lists, 1890-1957", FamilySearch — index entry for Icchok Donski, 1940: born about 1903, Poland. Digitised from NARA microfilm publication M1383 (passenger and crew lists of vessels arriving at Seattl…
FamilySearch's index of the Seattle passenger lists, read by the archive on 20 September 2026, has Icchok Donski, born about 1903 in Poland, arriving at Seattle in 1940. The register's compiled line gives 1903, and the two agree. The name occurs once on the register, and a Polish-born passenger 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.
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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