Emanuel Distler

Emanuel Distler received transit visa no. 179 at the Japanese consulate in Kaunas on 29 July 1940. The register records physician, aged 53.

What the register records

Nationality as recorded

Polnisch

Age in 1940

53

Occupation

Physician

The journey

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

Where this comes from

• 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…
  1986 Przemysl; Polish; A.Distler 9 Mandellane N.Y.
• 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…
  #112, age 55, b. Przemysl, physician, arr 13.2
• hunt/familysearch: US arrival manifest: Emanuel Distler, Seattle, 1941
  "Seattle Passenger Lists", FamilySearch, entry for Emanuel Distler, 1941. Ship: Heian Maru. Matched from the Heian Maru's Polish-born passenger list (198 people, of whom 57 matched the register). Register No.179 'Emanuel Distler' records age 53; the manifest gives born 1887, arriving 1941. Co
• 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 5: 54, physician, b. Przemysl
• 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 13 Feb 1941 (line 179)