Jan Binkowski

Jan Binkowski received transit visa no. 1804 at the Japanese consulate in Kaunas on 16 August 1940. The register records engineer, aged 34.

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What the register records

Nationality as recorded

Polnisch

Age in 1940

34

Occupation

Engineer

The journey

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

Where this comes from

• List of Refugees, Vilna, 1940 — JDC Archives, New York, collection AR 33/44, file 00876. The contemporary register of Polish Jewish refugees in Lithuania, running to more than nine thousand numbered entries; the fullest independent check…
  The 1940 Vilna refugee list has, at entry 523, Jan Bieniakowski, born 1906 at Łódź, who came from Łódź; the year agrees with the register's compiled age, and the town with what the archive already holds for this line.
• 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 48 of the Kobe Jewish Community's refugee register: aged 35, born at Lodz, an engineer, who arrived in Japan from Vilnius on 2 February 1941.
• US arrival manifest: Jan Binkowski, Seattle, 1941
  "Seattle Passenger Lists", FamilySearch, entry for Jan Binkowski, 1941. Ship: Heian Maru. Matched from the Heian Maru's Polish-born passenger list (198 people, of whom 57 matched the register). Register No.1804 'Jan Binkowski' records age 34; the manifest gives born 1906, arriving 1941. Confi
• 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 3: 35, engineer, b. Lodz
• 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 2 Feb 1941 (line 1804)
• "California, San Francisco, Passenger Lists, 1893-1953", FamilySearch — index entry for Fr Jan Jankowski, 1949: born about 1910, Poland. Digitised from NARA microfilm publication M1410 (passenger lists of vessels arriving at San Francisc…
  FamilySearch's index of the San Francisco passenger lists, read by the archive on 20 September 2026, has Fr Jan Jankowski, born about 1910 in Poland, arriving at San Francisco in 1949. The register's compiled line gives 1906. A lead only: the birth years are 4 years apart, which is more than the archive accepts without the sheet.
• "Washington, King, Seattle, Passenger Lists, 1890-1957", FamilySearch — index entry for Jan Binkowski, 1941: born about 1906, Poland. Digitised from NARA microfilm publication M1383 (passenger and crew lists of vessels arriving at Seattl…
  FamilySearch's index of the Seattle passenger lists, read by the archive on 20 September 2026, has Jan Binkowski, born about 1906 in Poland, arriving at Seattle in 1941. The register's compiled line gives 1906, 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: "Binkowski Jan — Polish — Yokohama — Canada". (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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