Heyman Marta received transit visa no. 1590 at the Japanese consulate in Kaunas on 10 August 1940. The register records clerk, aged 31.
Documents
The Heian Maru, arriving at Seattle in 1941: list or manifest of alien passengers, the sheet that names Emanuel Distler — 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 96 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.The Heian Maru, arriving at Seattle in 1941: the continuation sheet, with the relatives named and the destinations, for the sheet that names Norbert Henryk Gorwic — 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 97 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
31
Occupation
Clerk
Family, per the Kitade-Bluman list
wife of #1591
The journey
Reached Japan; registered in Kobe for Canada.
Where this comes from
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 56 (also numbered 58) of the Kobe Jewish Community's refugee register: aged 49.
US arrival manifest: Marta Roza Heyman, Seattle, 1941 "Seattle Passenger Lists", FamilySearch, entry for Marta Roza Heyman, 1941. Ship: Heian Maru. Matched from the Heian Maru's Polish-born passenger list (198 people, of whom 57 matched the register). Register No.1590 'Heyman Marta' records age 31; the manifest gives born 1910, arriving 1941. Co