Sura Federman

Sura Federman received transit visa no. 1820 at the Japanese consulate in Kaunas on 16 August 1940. The register records student, aged 17.

What the register records

Nationality as recorded

Lithuanien

Age in 1940

17

Occupation

Student

Family, per the Kitade-Bluman list

sister of #1880

The journey

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

Where this comes from

• "California, San Francisco, Passenger Lists, 1893-1953", FamilySearch — index entry for Sura Federman, 1941: born about 1924, Poland. Digitised from NARA microfilm publication M1410 (passenger lists of vessels arriving at San Francisco).…
  FamilySearch's index of the San Francisco passenger lists, read by the archive on 20 September 2026, has Sura Federman, born about 1924 in Poland, arriving at San Francisco in 1941. The register's compiled line gives 1923, and the two are 1 year apart. The name occurs once on the register, and a Polish-born passenger landing at San Francisco 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.
• Manifest of alien passengers, SS Yawata Maru, sailing from Yokohama April 10th 1941, arrived San Francisco April 24th 1941 (US National Archives, M1410, film 369; read on FamilySearch's copy)
  She reached San Francisco on 24 April 1941 on the Yawata Maru from Yokohama with her brother Saul, on her way to their father, Rafal Federman, in New York, according to the passenger list held by the National Archives (FamilySearch's copy). The list gives her birthplace as Częstochowa.
• Mark Halpern correspondence (8 Aug 2026) + Yad Vashem "Fragments of Memory" page: five of seven Os… — Vera Harrang, [name withheld], Nissim Segaloff, Zosia Gertler (visa No.1820 as Sura Federman), Antonina Altszuler (Amakusa Maru 74 list)

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