Majska Ewa received transit visa no. 1545 at the Japanese consulate in Kaunas on 8 August 1940. Aged 46 in 1940.
What the register records
Nationality as recorded
Polnisch
Age in 1940
46
Family, per the Kitade-Bluman list
children (Mira (18), Saul (12)), mother of #1544
The journey
Reached Japan; aided by the Polish ambassador Tadeusz Romer; registered in Kobe for USA.
Travelled with, and never given a number
Mira — child, aged 18
Saul — child, aged 12
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
M.S. Hie Maru, Kobe 4 May – Yokohama 7 May – Seattle 18 May 1941, sheet 5 of 11 Hie Maru passenger no. 109; Housewife; b. Lida, Poland; last residence Lida, Poland; US visa Q.I.V.5903, issued Kobe, 4-30-1941; to Boston, Mass.; joining Husband, Izaak Manski, 34 Schuyler St. Roxbury, Mass.; nearest relative left behind: Nobody, Lida, Lithuania