Zusman Epsztejn

Visa no. 1806 · Kaunas, 16 August 1940

Zusman Epsztejn received transit visa no. 1806 at the Japanese consulate in Kaunas on 16 August 1940. Aged 39 in 1940.

Documents

Document — Zusman Epsztejn — The Hikawa Maru, arriving at Seattle in 1940: list or manifest of alien passengers, the sheet that names Motelie Kacas or Katz — US National Archives, Record Group 85 (Immigration and Naturalization Service), Passenger and Crew Lists of Vessels Arriving at Seattle, microfilm publication M1383, roll 258, frame 782 of the file unit “Nov. 26, 1940, SS Shellco-Jan. 30, 1941, SS Border King” (NAID 553885966). Public domain; credit: National Archives at Washington, DC.

Document — Zusman Epsztejn — The Hikawa Maru, arriving at Seattle in 1940: the continuation sheet, with the relatives named and the destinations, for the sheet that names Motelie Kacas or Katz — US National Archives, Record Group 85 (Immigration and Naturalization Service), Passenger and Crew Lists of Vessels Arriving at Seattle, microfilm publication M1383, roll 258, frame 781 of the file unit “Nov. 26, 1940, SS Shellco-Jan. 30, 1941, SS Border King” (NAID 553885966). Public domain; credit: National Archives at Washington, DC.

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What the register records

Nationality as recorded: Polnisch
Age in 1940: 39

The journey

Reached Japan; registered in Kobe for South Africa?.

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 1147, Zusman Epsztein, born 1901, who came from Warszawa; the year agrees with the register's compiled age.
US arrival manifest: Zusman Epstein, Seattle, 1940
"Seattle Passenger Lists", FamilySearch, entry for Zusman Epstein, 1940. Ship: Hikawa Maru. Matched from the Hikawa Maru's Polish-born passenger list (162 people, 35 matched). Register No.1806 'Zusman Epsztejn' records age 39; the manifest gives born 1901, arriving 1940.
"Washington, King, Seattle, Passenger Lists, 1890-1957", FamilySearch — index entry for Zusman Epstein, 1940: born about 1901, Poland. Digitised from NARA microfilm publication M1383 (passenger and crew lists of vessels arriving at Seatt…
FamilySearch's index of the Seattle passenger lists, read by the archive on 20 September 2026, has Zusman Epstein, born about 1901 in Poland, arriving at Seattle in 1940. The register's compiled line gives 1901, and the two agree. The name occurs once on the register, and a Polish-born passenger landing at Seattle in 1940 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.
The Hikawa Maru, arriving at Seattle in 1940: list or manifest of alien passengers, the sheet that names Motelie Kacas or Katz — US National Archives, Record Group 85 (Immigration and Naturalization Service), Passenger and Crew Lists of…
The Hikawa Maru, arriving at Seattle in 1940: the continuation sheet, with the relatives named and the destinations, for the sheet that names Motelie Kacas or Katz — US National Archives, Record Group 85 (Immigration and Naturalization S…

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