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.

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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…
  Entry 112 of the Kobe Jewish Community's refugee register: aged 55, born at Przemysl, a physician, who arrived in Japan on 13 February 1941.
• 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)
• "Washington, King, Seattle, Passenger Lists, 1890-1957", FamilySearch — index entry for Emanuel Distler, 1941: born about 1887, Poland. Digitised from NARA microfilm publication M1383 (passenger and crew lists of vessels arriving at Seat…
  FamilySearch's index of the Seattle passenger lists, read by the archive on 20 September 2026, has Emanuel Distler, born about 1887 in Poland, arriving at Seattle in 1941. The register's compiled line gives 1887, and the two agree. The name occurs once on the register, and a Polish-born passenger landing at Seattle 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… — "List of refugees who left Japan to places other than Shanghai in the month of May 1941", Nos. 1–321
  He left Yokohama on the Heian Maru on 27 May 1941, bound for Canada (the Jewish Community of Kobe's list of departures, May 1941 (JDC Archives, AR 33/44 file 53)). The list reads: "Distler Emanuel". (Heian Maru, Yokohama, 27 May 1941.)
• The Heian Maru, arriving at Seattle in 1941: list or manifest of alien passengers, the sheet that names Emanuel Distler — US National Archives, Record Group 85 (Immigration and Naturalization Service), Passenger and Crew Lists of Vessels…
• The Heian Maru, arriving at Seattle in 1941: the continuation sheet, with the relatives named and the destinations, for the sheet that names Norbert Henryk Gorwic — US National Archives, Record Group 85 (Immigration and Naturalization Se…

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