Fijalkow Szloma

Fijalkow Szloma received transit visa no. 1644 at the Japanese consulate in Kaunas on 13 August 1940. The register records furniture maker, aged 23.

What the register records

Nationality as recorded

Polnisch

Age in 1940

23

Occupation

Furniture Maker

The journey

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

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 1539, Szloma Fiałkow, born 1917 at Pinsk, who came from Pinsk; the year agrees with the register's compiled age, and the town with what the archive already holds for this line.
• 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 71 of the Kobe community's list of refugees and their relatives abroad: aged 24, born at Pinsk; relatives abroad: a brother, Harry Fijalkow, 9331 103rd Avenue, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada; an uncle, M. Feldman, 1970 Watow Avenue, Bronx, New York; a cousin, Paulina Resh, 1654 South Drake Avenue, Chicago, Illinois.
• "California, San Francisco, Passenger Lists, 1893-1953", FamilySearch — index entry for Szloma Fijalkow, 1941: born about 1917, Poland. Digitised from NARA microfilm publication M1410 (passenger lists of vessels arriving at San Francisco…
  FamilySearch's index of the San Francisco passenger lists, read by the archive on 20 September 2026, has Szloma Fijalkow, born about 1917 in Poland, arriving at San Francisco in 1941. The register's compiled line gives 1917, and the two agree. The name occurs once on the register, and a Polish-born passenger landing at San Francisco 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… — SS Kamakura Maru, aliens aboard, left Honolulu 22 June 1941 late p.m., due San Francisco 27/28 June
  He sailed from Japan on the Kamakura Maru and left Honolulu for San Francisco on 22 June 1941, bound for 1654 South Drake Avenue, Chicago, the address of his cousin (the Jewish Welfare Board, Hawaii's list of aliens on the Kamakura Maru, June 1941, forwarded to the JDC; JDC Archives, AR 33/44 file 53). The list reads: line "Figalkow, Szolma — 24 — M — S [sic] — Poland — Furniture maker — 1654 S. Drake Ave, Chicago, Ill." (Kamakura Maru, Yokohama → Honolulu (left 22 Jun 1941) → San Francisco (27/28 Jun 1941).)

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