Zelmanowicz Froim received transit visa no. 1892 at the Japanese consulate in Kaunas on 17 August 1940. The register records weaver, aged 55.
What the register records
Nationality as recorded
Polnisch
Age in 1940
55
Occupation
Weaver
Family, per the Kitade-Bluman list
husband of #1891, children (Chaim (17), Szlama (16))
The journey
Reached Japan; registered in Kobe for Canada.
Travelled with, and never given a number
Chaim — child, aged 17
Szlama — child, aged 16
The register recorded visa holders. It did not reliably record the wives and children who travelled on somebody else’s visa, so these people have no entry of their own and cannot be searched for. Where the archive has recovered a name, it is here.
Where this comes from
hunt/familysearch: US arrival manifest: Jenta Raca Zelmanowicz, Seattle, 1940 "Seattle Passenger Lists", FamilySearch, entry for Froim Luzer 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.1892 'Zelmanowicz Froim' records age 55; the manifest gives born 1885, arrivi