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.

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…
  523, Lodz, from Lodz
• 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…
  #48, 35, b. Lodz, Ingen., arr 2.2, from Vilno
• hunt/familysearch: 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)