Heyman Stefan received transit visa no. 1591 at the Japanese consulate in Kaunas on 10 August 1940. The register records engineer, aged 32.
What the register records
Nationality as recorded
Polnisch
Age in 1940
32
Occupation
Engineer
Family, per the Kitade-Bluman list
brother of #1589, husband of #1590
The journey
Reached Japan; registered in Kobe for Canada.
What is known
Two lines in the register's August crowd — Nos.1590 and 1591, written 10 August 1940 — carried a couple whose children became public figures of British Columbia: George Heyman, the environment minister who has told his parents' story in the legislature, and Jane Heyman, the theatre director honoured in the province's Entertainment Hall of Fame. Stefan and Marta Heyman crossed through Japan on Sugihara's visas, were sponsored by relatives in Canada, and settled in Vancouver, where Stefan worked as a machinist until his engineering credentials were recognized.
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… No.102, 1908 Warszawa
hunt/familysearch: US arrival manifest: Marta Roza Heyman, Seattle, 1941 "Seattle Passenger Lists", FamilySearch, entry for Stefan 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.1591 'Heyman tefan' records age 32; the manifest gives born 1909, arriving 1941. Confid