Dzikowski Janusz received transit visa no. 1734 at the Japanese consulate in Kaunas on 14 August 1940. Aged 18 in 1940.
Documents
The Hikawa Maru, arriving at Seattle in 1941: list or manifest of alien passengers, the sheet that names Bertold Weinsberg — US National Archives, Record Group 85 (Immigration and Naturalization Service), Passenger and Crew Lists of Vessels Arriving at Seattle, microfilm publication M1383, roll 261, frame 72 of the file unit “Apr. 28, 1941, SS Hikawa Maru-June 27, 1941, SS Empire Cannery” (NAID 553888815). Public domain; credit: National Archives at Washington, DC.Arriving at Seattle: the continuation sheet, with the relatives named and the destinations, for the sheet that names Berthold Weinsberg — US National Archives, Record Group 85 (Immigration and Naturalization Service), Passenger and Crew Lists of Vessels Arriving at Seattle, microfilm publication M1383, roll 261, frame 73 of the file unit “Apr. 28, 1941, SS Hikawa Maru-June 27, 1941, SS Empire Cannery” (NAID 553888815). Public domain; credit: National Archives at Washington, DC.
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What the register records
Nationality as recorded
Polnisch
Age in 1940
18
The journey
Reached Japan; aided by the Polish ambassador Tadeusz Romer; registered in Kobe for Canada.
Where this comes from
US arrival manifest: Janusz Dzikowski, Seattle, 1941 "Seattle Passenger Lists", FamilySearch, entry for Janusz Dzikowski, 1941. Ship: Hikawa Maru. Matched from the Hikawa Maru's Polish-born passenger list (162 people, 35 matched). Register No.1734 'Dzikowski Janusz' records age 18; the manifest gives born 1923, arriving 1941.