Wajland Zelman

Wajland Zelman received transit visa no. 1763 at the Japanese consulate in Kaunas on 14 August 1940. Aged 46 in 1940.

What the register records

Nationality as recorded

Polnisch

Age in 1940

46

The journey

Reached Japan.

Where this comes from

• "California, San Francisco, Passenger Lists, 1893-1953", FamilySearch — index entry for Zelman-Leub Wojland, 1940: born about 1894, Poland. Digitised from NARA microfilm publication M1410 (passenger lists of vessels arriving at San Franc…
  FamilySearch's index of the San Francisco passenger lists, read by the archive on 20 September 2026, has Zelman-Leub Wojland, born about 1894 in Poland, arriving at San Francisco in 1940. The register's compiled line gives 1894, and the two agree. The name occurs once on the register, and a Polish-born passenger landing at San Francisco 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, SS President Pierce, sailing from Kobe 4 November 1940, arrived San Francisco November 1940 (NARA, passenger lists of vessels arriving at San Francisco, M1410, film 366; read on FamilySearch's copy)
  The President Pierce sailed from Kobe on 4 November 1940, took shore leave at Honolulu on the 13th and landed at San Francisco in the third week of November; its manifest, ten names on the page, has Zelman-Leub Wojland, aged 46, married, a tailor, Polish, born at Wohyń, last residence Wilno, on an American non-immigrant visa, No. 37, issued at Kaunas on 24 July 1940; a later note in the margin records a change of status in February 1942. The register gives his age as 46. (The sheet is in the National Archives' passenger lists of vessels arriving at San Francisco, microfilm M1410; the archive read FamilySearch's copy.)
• Yad Vashem Archives, Jerusalem — the card file of Jewish refugees from Poland who found refuge in various countries, 1939–1941
  Yad Vashem's card file of Jewish refugees from Poland who found refuge in various countries, 1939–1941, has a card for Zalman Wojland, who was in Wilno during the war. The archive attaches it under its rule of 19 September 2026: the card file is a record of the refugees in Wilno, where the road through Sugihara's visas began; the full name occurs once on the register; and the card places the person in Wilno in 1939–41, on the road to Sugihara's visas. Credit: Yad Vashem Archives.

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