Federman Saul

Federman Saul received transit visa no. 1880 at the Japanese consulate in Kaunas on 17 August 1940. The register records baker, aged 18.

What the register records

Nationality as recorded

Polnisch

Age in 1940

18

Occupation

Baker

Family, per the Kitade-Bluman list

brother of #1820

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 Saul Federman, 1941: born about 1923, 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 Saul Federman, born about 1923 in Poland, arriving at San Francisco in 1941. The register's compiled line gives 1922, 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.
• 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 I p. 3 — SS Yawata Maru, arrived Honolulu 18 April 1941, due San Francisco 24 April 1941
  He was listed among the aliens aboard the Yawata Maru, which reached Honolulu on 18 April 1941 on her way to San Francisco; his destination was 600 West 133rd Street, New York (JWB Hawaii list, forwarded to the JDC; JDC Archives, AR 33/44 file 53). The list reads: "Federman, Mr. Saul — S — 18 — M — Polish — Student — 600 W. 133rd St., N.Y.C." (Yawata Maru, Honolulu 18 Apr 1941, San Francisco 24 Apr 1941.)
• 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)
  He reached San Francisco on 24 April 1941 on the Yawata Maru from Yokohama with his sister Sura, going to their father Rafal Federman at 600 West 133rd Street, New York, according to the passenger list held by the National Archives (FamilySearch's copy). The list gives his birthplace as Częstochowa and his last home as Warsaw.

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