Krugman Samuel

Krugman Samuel received transit visa no. 1603 at the Japanese consulate in Kaunas on 10 August 1940. The register records student, aged 22.

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What the register records

Nationality as recorded

Polnisch

Age in 1940

22

Occupation

Student

Family, per the Kitade-Bluman list

brother of #1624

The journey

Reached Japan; aided by the Polish ambassador Tadeusz Romer; registered in Kobe for Canada.

Where this comes from

• List of Refugees, Vilna, 1940 — JDC Archives, New York, collection AR 33/44, file 00876. The contemporary register of Polish Jewish refugees in Lithuania, running to more than nine thousand numbered entries; the fullest independent check…
  The 1940 Vilna refugee list has, at entry 3239, Szmul Krugman, born 1917 at Białystok, who had come from Warsaw; the year agrees with the register's age and Białystok agrees with the archive's other records.
• 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 382 of the Kobe Jewish Community's refugee register: aged 24, who travelled from Vilnius.
• US arrival manifest: Samuel Krugman, Seattle, 1941
  "Seattle Passenger Lists", FamilySearch, entry for Samuel Krugman, 1941. Ship: Heian Maru. Matched from the Heian Maru's Polish-born passenger list (198 people, of whom 57 matched the register). Register No.1603 'Krugman amuel' records age 22; the manifest gives born 1918, arriving 1941. Conf
• 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 19: 23, student, b. Bialystok
• 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 1603)
• S.S. Heian Maru, Yokohama to Vancouver, Canada, 27 May 1941 — list of refugee passengers, HICEM meeting half the cost of the passages. JDC Archives, New York, collection AR 33/44, file 00053, item 00766. One sheet carries four sailings;…
  Listed as "KRUGMAN Samuel" among the refugee passengers who left Yokohama to Vancouver on the Heian Maru. The compiled register independently records this line as bound for Canada — which is where this ship was going. The two agree without being derived from one another.
• "Washington, King, Seattle, Passenger Lists, 1890-1957", FamilySearch — index entry for Samuel Krugman, 1941: born about 1918, Poland. Digitised from NARA microfilm publication M1383 (passenger and crew lists of vessels arriving at Seatt…
  FamilySearch's index of the Seattle passenger lists, read by the archive on 20 September 2026, has Samuel Krugman, born about 1918 in Poland, arriving at Seattle in 1941. The register's compiled line gives 1918, and the two agree. The name occurs once on the register, and a Polish-born passenger landing at Seattle in 1941 fits the route through Japan, so the entry is taken as this person's under the archive's rule of 19 September 2026 for records from the route.
• JDC Archives, New York, collection AR 33/44 file 53 (the Jewish Community of Kobe's returns to the JDC, 1941; Set I, item 00761) — Set… — "List of refugees who left Japan to places other than Shanghai in the month of May 1941", Nos. 1–321
  He left Yokohama on the Heian Maru on 27 May 1941, bound for Canada (the Jewish Community of Kobe's list of departures, May 1941 (JDC Archives, AR 33/44 file 53)). The list reads: "Krugman Samuel, ″ Hessel". (Heian Maru, Yokohama, 27 May 1941.)
• 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…
• 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 Se…

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