Heyman Marta

Heyman Marta received transit visa no. 1590 at the Japanese consulate in Kaunas on 10 August 1940. The register records clerk, aged 31.

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…
  #56/58, age 49
• hunt/familysearch: 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
• M/S Heian Maru manifest, sheet 21 — List or Manifest of Alien Passengers, sailed Yokohama 27 May 1941, arrived Seattle 7 June 1941, all thirty admitted (NARA M1383, roll 262, Seattle Passenger Lists; retrieved with the owner signed in).…
  M/S Heian Maru, Yokohama 27 May - Seattle 7 June 1941; line 11: 31, of Warsaw
• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, Holocaust Survivors and Victims Database — the Flight and Rescue electronic dataset (source 20725): USHMM's own transcription of the Kaunas register, 2,140 persons with citizenship, visa type, iss…
  USHMM Flight and Rescue dataset: arrived in Japan 25 Feb 1941 (line 1590)