Brucha Pat

Brucha Pat received transit visa no. 189 at the Japanese consulate in Kaunas on 30 July 1940. Aged 25 in 1940.

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What the register records

Nationality as recorded

Polnisch

Age in 1940

25

Family, per the Kitade-Bluman list

wife of #200

The journey

Reached Japan; registered in Kobe for Canada.

Where this comes from

• "Washington, King, Seattle, Passenger Lists, 1890-1957", FamilySearch — index entry for Bruncha Pat, 1940: born about 1915, Poland. Digitised from NARA microfilm publication M1383 (passenger and crew lists of vessels arriving at Seattle)…
  FamilySearch's index of the Seattle passenger lists, read by the archive on 20 September 2026, has Bruncha Pat, born about 1915 in Poland, arriving at Seattle in 1940. The register's compiled line gives 1915, 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.
• Manifest of alien passengers, MS Heian Maru, sailing from Kobe 16 October 1940, arrived Seattle 31 October 1940, the Pat and Lichtenstein page (NARA, passenger and crew lists of vessels arriving at Seattle, M1383, film 257; read on Famil…
  The manifest sheet itself has the Pat family on the Heian Maru, which sailed from Kobe on 16 October 1940 and reached Seattle on the 31st: Bruncha Pat, aged 25, married, a housewife, born at Świder in Poland, last residence Kaunas, on a Polish passport and an American non-immigrant visa, No. 27, that is, admitted for a stay rather than for settlement; her husband Emanuel and his sister Noema are the lines beside her. A later note in the inspector's hand says she was readmitted at Niagara Falls, New York, on 12 October 1942 for permanent residence, which is how a visitor's entry was turned into an immigrant's. The age agrees with the register's compiled line.
• Yad Vashem Archives, Jerusalem — the card file of Jewish refugees from Poland who found refuge in various countries, 1939–1941
  Yad Vashem's card file of Jewish refugees from Poland who found refuge in various countries, 1939–1941, has a card for Brucha Pat, born in 1915, of Warsaw, who was in Wilno during the war. The archive attaches it under its rule of 19 September 2026: the card file is a record of the refugees in Wilno, where the road through Sugihara's visas began; the full name occurs once on the register; and the card places the person in Wilno in 1939–41, on the road to Sugihara's visas. Credit: Yad Vashem Archives.
• The HEIAN, arriving at Seattle in 1940: list or manifest of alien passengers, the sheet that names Zelman Josef Lichtenstein — US National Archives, Record Group 85 (Immigration and Naturalization Service), Passenger and Crew Lists of Ve…
• The HEIAN, arriving at Seattle in 1940: the continuation sheet, with the relatives named and the destinations, for the sheet that names Zelman Josef Lichtenstein — US National Archives, Record Group 85 (Immigration and Naturalization Ser…

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