Zelmanowicz Jenta received transit visa no. 1891 at the Japanese consulate in Kaunas on 17 August 1940. Aged 51 in 1940.
Documents
The Heiane
Maru, arriving at Seattle in 1940: list or manifest of alien passengers, the sheet that names Markus Chaim Nowogrodzki — US National Archives, Record Group 85 (Immigration and Naturalization Service), Passenger and Crew Lists of Vessels Arriving at Seattle, microfilm publication M1383, roll 257, frame 319 of the file unit “Sept. 26, 1940, SS Shellco-Nov. 7, 1940, SS Shellco” (NAID 553884999). Public domain; credit: National Archives at Washington, DC.The Heiane
Maru, arriving at Seattle in 1940: the continuation sheet, with the relatives named and the destinations, for the sheet that names Markus Chaim Nowogrodzki — US National Archives, Record Group 85 (Immigration and Naturalization Service), Passenger and Crew Lists of Vessels Arriving at Seattle, microfilm publication M1383, roll 257, frame 318 of the file unit “Sept. 26, 1940, SS Shellco-Nov. 7, 1940, SS Shellco” (NAID 553884999). Public domain; credit: National Archives at Washington, DC.
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What the register records
Nationality as recorded
Polnisch
Age in 1940
51
Family, per the Kitade-Bluman list
wife of #1892
The journey
Reached Japan; registered in Kobe for Canada.
Where this comes from
US arrival manifest: Jenta Raca Zelmanowicz, Seattle, 1940 "Seattle Passenger Lists", FamilySearch, entry for Jenta Raca Zelmanowicz, 1940. Ship: Heian Maru. Matched from the Heian Maru's Polish-born passenger list (198 people, of whom 57 matched the register). Register No.1891 'Zelmanowicz Jenta' records age 51; the manifest gives born 1888, arrivin