Fajwysz Szlama Gilinski received transit visa no. 1799 at the Japanese consulate in Kaunas on 16 August 1940. The register records teacher, aged 54.
What the register records
Nationality as recorded
Polnisch
Age in 1940
54
Occupation
Teacher
Family, per the Kitade-Bluman list
wife Liba (38), son Wiktor (7)
The journey
Reached Japan; registered in Kobe for USA.
Travelled with, and never given a number
Liba — wife, aged 38
Wiktor — son, aged 7
The register recorded visa holders. It did not reliably record the wives and children who travelled on somebody else’s visa, so these people have no entry of their own and cannot be searched for. Where the archive has recovered a name, it is here.
Where this comes from
hunt/familysearch: US arrival manifest: Szlama Fajwys Gilinski, Seattle, 1941 "Seattle Passenger Lists", FamilySearch, entry for Szlama Fajwys Gilinski, 1941. Ship: Hikawa Maru. Matched from the Hikawa Maru's Polish-born passenger list (162 people, 35 matched). Register No.1799 'Fajwysz zlama Gilinski' records age 54; the manifest gives born 1889, arriving 1941. Confid