Manski Samuel

Manski Samuel received transit visa no. 1544 at the Japanese consulate in Kaunas on 8 August 1940. The register records clerk, aged 20.

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What the register records

Nationality as recorded

Polnisch

Age in 1940

20

Occupation

Clerk

Family, per the Kitade-Bluman list

son of #1545

The journey

Reached Japan; registered in Kobe for USA.

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…
  The Kobe community's list of refugees and their relatives abroad: born 1920 at Lida; relatives abroad: a father, I. Manski, 34 Scheuyler Street, Roxbury, Massachusetts.
• US arrival manifest: Samuil Manska or Manski, Seattle, 1941
  "Seattle Passenger Lists", FamilySearch, entry for Samuil Manska or Manski, 1941. Ship: Hie Maru. Matched from the Hie Maru's Polish-born passenger list (87 people). Register No.1544 'Majski amuel' records age 20; the manifest gives born 1921, arriving 1941.
• M.S. Hie Maru, Kobe 4 May – Yokohama 7 May – Seattle 18 May 1941, sheet 5 of 11 — transcribed for the Immigrant Ships Transcribers Guild by David Rosen
  Hie Maru passenger no. 110; 20y 5m; Student; b. Lida, Poland; last residence Lida, Poland; US visa Q.I.V.5904, issued Kobe, 4-30-1941; to Boston, Mass.; joining Father, Izaak Manski, 34 Schuyler St. Roxbury, Mass.; nearest relative left behind: Nobody, Lida, Lithuania
• Temple Emeth, Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts — the congregation's own account of its Sugihara Memorial Garden: a memorial to Chiune Sugihara dedicated on the temple grounds in April 2000; 'Temple Emeth congregant Samuil Manski z”l, one of…
  AFTER THE RESCUE: Samuil Manski, who reached Seattle on the Hie Maru in May 1941, became a congregant of Temple Emeth in Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts, and — in the congregation's own words — 'was instrumental in the memorial's planning and implementation' when a memorial to Chiune Sugihara was dedicated on the temple grounds in April 2000. He told his own story in a book, 'With God's Help'. A Sugihara Memorial Committee of temple members and the Boston area's Japanese community has held an annual programme at the garden since. Brought to the archive by David Rosen, who attended one of those commemorations. The congregation's account gives July; the ship's own manifest, which the archive holds, has him sailing from Kobe on 4 May and landing at Seattle on 18 May 1941 — the manifest is the record, and the page follows it.
• The account of the Sugihara Memorial Garden published by Temple Emeth, Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts, on its own pages — the written companion to the photograph of the monument the archive already holds. It records that the memorial was d…
  The congregation's own account of the Sugihara Memorial Garden at Temple Emeth, Chestnut Hill, as printed on its pages. Given by David Rosen, who knew him.
• "Washington, King, Seattle, Passenger Lists, 1890-1957", FamilySearch — index entry for Samuil Manska or Manski, 1941: born about 1921, Poland. Digitised from NARA microfilm publication M1383 (passenger and crew lists of vessels arriving…
  FamilySearch's index of the Seattle passenger lists, read by the archive on 20 September 2026, has Samuil Manska or Manski, born about 1921 in Poland, arriving at Seattle in 1941. The register's compiled line gives 1920, 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.
• The JEWCOM register — the refugee register kept by the Refugee Committee of the Jewish Community of Kobe (Ashkenazim) at No. 6 Yamamoto-dori, 1-chome, whose cable address was 'JEWCOM Kobe'. Eighty-four pages on the committee's own printe…
  Entry 449 of the Kobe Jewish Community's refugee register: aged 21, born at Lida, a clerk, who arrived in Japan from Vilnius on 13 February 1941.
• 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: "M[a]nski Samuel (faint)". (Hie Maru, Yokohama, 7 May 1941.)
• The 1950 United States census (US National Archives, 1950census.archives.gov)
  In April 1950 the United States census found him in Boston, aged 29, born in Poland, married and working as a travelling salesman in hosiery (National Archives, 1950 census, enumeration district 15-820, sheet 7).
• The certificate of identity of Samuil Manski (No. 1544), issued by the Polish Legation in Kaunas, and the facing visa page with his Sugihara transit visa, shown in an exhibition case with a bilingual caption.
• Collections Search - United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• The Eulogizer: Screenwriter David Rayfiel, ‘Sugihara’ Jew Samuil Manski - Jewish Telegraphic Agency
• Samuil Manski — Sugihara visa (cleaned)
• Honolulu Festival 2017 report, 'Inspiring Story of Chiune Sugihara — Visas for Life' (Kitade keynote, 11-12 Mar 2017): Samil Manski, 90, nursing home near Houston (d. nine months after Kitade's interview)

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