Szoel-Chono Amsterdamski

Szoel-Chono Amsterdamski received transit visa no. 171 at the Japanese consulate in Kaunas on 29 July 1940. The register records shochet, aged 28.

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What the register records

Nationality as recorded

Polnisch

Age in 1940

28

Occupation

Shochet

The journey

Reached Japan; reached Shanghai; registered in Kobe for USA.

Where this comes from

• US arrival manifest: Szoel Chono Amsterdamski, Seattle, 1940
  "Seattle Passenger Lists", FamilySearch, entry for Szoel Chono Amsterdamski, 1940. Ship: Heian Maru. Matched from the Heian Maru's Polish-born passenger list (198 people, of whom 57 matched the register). Register No.171 'zoel-Chono Amsterdamski' records age 28; the manifest gives born 1912
• "Washington, King, Seattle, Passenger Lists, 1890-1957", FamilySearch — index entry for Szoel Chono Amsterdamski, 1940: born about 1912, Poland. Digitised from NARA microfilm publication M1383 (passenger and crew lists of vessels arrivin…
  FamilySearch's index of the Seattle passenger lists, read by the archive on 20 September 2026, has Szoel Chono Amsterdamski, born about 1912 in Poland, arriving at Seattle in 1940. The register's compiled line gives 1912, and the two agree. The name occurs once on the register, and a Polish-born passenger landing at Seattle in 1940 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.
• Manifest of alien passengers, MS Heian Maru, sailing from Yokohama 10 December 1940, arrived Seattle 24 December 1940, page 9 (NARA, passenger and crew lists of vessels arriving at Seattle, M1383, film 258; read on FamilySearch's copy)
  The Heian Maru sailed from Yokohama on 10 December 1940 and reached Seattle on 24 December 1940; the ninth page of its manifest, thirty names, mostly Japanese and Scandinavian, has Szoel Chono Amsterdamski, aged 28, married, a teacher, Polish, born at Grajewo, last residence Kaunas, on a Polish passport and a non-quota immigration visa for ministers of religion, No. 1 of 6 December 1940, with an immigration office note extending his stay into 1941. The register gives his age as 28 and his calling as a ritual slaughterer; the manifest's teacher is the same man under the purser's word. (The sheet is in the National Archives' passenger and crew lists of vessels arriving at Seattle, microfilm M1383; the archive read FamilySearch's copy.)
• 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 43, Amsterdamski Szoul, born 1912 at Grajewo, who came from Łomża; the year agrees with the age the register gives.
• The Heian Maru, arriving at Seattle in 1940: list or manifest of alien passengers, the sheet that names Szoel Chono Amsterdamski — US National Archives, Record Group 85 (Immigration and Naturalization Service), Passenger and Crew Lists o…
• The Heian Maru, arriving at Seattle in 1940: the continuation sheet, with the relatives named and the destinations, for the sheet that names Szoel Chono Amsterdamski — US National Archives, Record Group 85 (Immigration and Naturalization…

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