Sznol Judka received transit visa no. 1567 at the Japanese consulate in Kaunas on 9 August 1940. The register records student, aged 24.
Documents
The Hikawa Maru, arriving at Seattle in 1941: list or manifest of alien passengers, the sheet that names Mojsze Szymkiewicz — US National Archives, Record Group 85 (Immigration and Naturalization Service), Passenger and Crew Lists of Vessels Arriving at Seattle, microfilm publication M1383, roll 262, frame 528 of the file unit “June 2, 1941, SS Princess Marguerite-July 7, 1941, SS Hie Maru” (NAID 553889808). Public domain; credit: National Archives at Washington, DC.Arriving at Seattle: the continuation sheet, with the relatives named and the destinations, for the sheet that names Mojsze Szymkiewicz — US National Archives, Record Group 85 (Immigration and Naturalization Service), Passenger and Crew Lists of Vessels Arriving at Seattle, microfilm publication M1383, roll 262, frame 529 of the file unit “June 2, 1941, SS Princess Marguerite-July 7, 1941, SS Hie Maru” (NAID 553889808). Public domain; credit: National Archives at Washington, DC.
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What the register records
Nationality as recorded
Polnisch
Age in 1940
24
Occupation
Student
The journey
Reached Japan; aided by the Polish ambassador Tadeusz Romer; registered in Kobe for Canada.
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 654 of the Kobe Jewish Community's refugee register: aged 25, born at Hrubieszow, a student.
US arrival manifest: Judka Sznol, Seattle, 1941 "Seattle Passenger Lists", FamilySearch, entry for Judka Sznol, 1941. Ship: Hikawa Maru. Matched from the Hikawa Maru's Polish-born passenger list (162 people, 35 matched). Register No.1567 'znol Judka' records age 24; the manifest gives born 1916, arriving 1941.