Hersz Hochgemein

Hersz Hochgemein received transit visa no. 1621 at the Japanese consulate in Kaunas on 13 August 1940. The register records lawyer, aged 58.

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What the register records

Nationality as recorded

Polnisch

Age in 1940

58

Occupation

Lawyer

Family, per the Kitade-Bluman list

husband of #1620

The journey

Reached Japan; registered in Kobe for Canada.

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…
  Entry 118 of the Kobe community's list of refugees and their relatives abroad: aged 58, born at Lublin, a lawyer, Polish; relatives abroad: a cousin, Professor Kazimierz Fajans, Annarbor University, Michigan.
• "Washington, King, Seattle, Passenger Lists, 1890-1957", FamilySearch — index entry for Hersze Hochgemin, 1941: born about 1883, Poland. Digitised from NARA microfilm publication M1383 (passenger and crew lists of vessels arriving at Sea…
  FamilySearch's index of the Seattle passenger lists, read by the archive on 20 September 2026, has Hersze Hochgemin, born about 1883 in Poland, arriving at Seattle in 1941. The register's compiled line gives 1882, and the two are 1 year apart. 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 Ko… — "List of departures for the month of June, 1941" (Jewish Community of Kobe, Migration Office; covering letter p. 12, Kobe, July 1941, HICEM-funded tickets)
  He left Yokohama on the Hikawa Maru on 5 June 1941, bound for Vancouver (the Jewish Community of Kobe's list of departures, June 1941 (JDC Archives, AR 33/44 file 53)). The list reads: Hikawa Maru sheet: "Hochgemein Hersz & wife Teodora — 2". (Hikawa Maru, Yokohama, 5 June 1941, Vancouver.)
• A ship, arriving at Seattle in 1941: list or manifest of alien passengers, the sheet that names Zygmumt Glass — US National Archives, Record Group 85 (Immigration and Naturalization Service), Passenger and Crew Lists of Vessels Arriving…
• Arriving at Seattle: the continuation sheet, with the relatives named and the destinations, for the sheet that names Zygmunt Glass — US National Archives, Record Group 85 (Immigration and Naturalization Service), Passenger and Crew Lists…

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