Heszel Krugman

Heszel Krugman received transit visa no. 1624 at the Japanese consulate in Kaunas on 13 August 1940. The register records merchant, aged 28.

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What the register records

Nationality as recorded

Polnisch

Age in 1940

28

Occupation

Merchant

Family, per the Kitade-Bluman list

brother of #1603

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 3238, Heszel Krugman, born 1911 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 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 157 of the Kobe community's list of refugees and their relatives abroad: born 1911 at Bialystok; relatives abroad: an uncle, Artur Blum, Reading, Pennsylvania; Bloom Bros, Reading, Pennsylvania.
• 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 381 of the Kobe Jewish Community's refugee register: aged 30, born at Bialystok, a merchant, who arrived in Japan from Vilnius on 25 February 1941.
• US arrival manifest: Samuel Krugman, Seattle, 1941
  "Seattle Passenger Lists", FamilySearch, entry for Heszel 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.1624 'Heszel Krugman' records age 28; the manifest gives born 1912, arriving 1941. Con
• 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 18: 29, 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 1624)
• "Washington, King, Seattle, Passenger Lists, 1890-1957", FamilySearch — index entry for Heszel Krugman, 1941: born about 1912, 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 Heszel Krugman, born about 1912 in Poland, arriving at Seattle in 1941. The register's compiled line gives 1911, 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 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: "″ Hessel". (Heian Maru, Yokohama, 27 May 1941.)
• Canadian Jewish Heritage Network / Alex Dworkin Canadian Jewish Archives
  A possible record, not yet confirmed as this person: the Canadian Jewish Heritage Network's index of the Jewish Immigrant Aid Services (JIAS) Montreal client cards, read on 24 October 2026, has a card for a Heszel Krugman, born in Poland, with a spouse Anna, whose file was opened and who arrived on 12 February 1952. The name is rare and matches the register's Heszel Krugman, bound for Canada; the card gives no town of birth, age or trade, and the register line records no wife.
• 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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