Zelmanowicz Froim

Zelmanowicz Froim received transit visa no. 1892 at the Japanese consulate in Kaunas on 17 August 1940. The register records weaver, aged 55.

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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

• 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
• "Washington, King, Seattle, Passenger Lists, 1890-1957", FamilySearch — index entry for Froim Luzer Zelmanowicz, 1940: born about 1885, Poland. Digitised from NARA microfilm publication M1383 (passenger and crew lists of vessels arriving…
  FamilySearch's index of the Seattle passenger lists, read by the archive on 20 September 2026, has Froim Luzer Zelmanowicz, born about 1885 in Poland, arriving at Seattle in 1940. The register's compiled line gives 1885, 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.
• The Australian Jewish News (Melbourne), Yiddish section, 14 November 1969 (National Library of Israel, Historical Jewish Press)
  Froim (Efraim Lozer) Zelmanowicz, a weaver remembered as a legend among the Jewish textile workers of Łódź, died in 1969. The Melbourne Jewish News reported his death in its Yiddish pages on 14 November 1969 and announced a memorial evening held for him by the Bund in Melbourne (National Library of Israel, Historical Jewish Press).
• List of Refugees, Vilna, 1940 — JDC Archives, New York, collection AR 33/44, file 00876. The contemporary register of Polish Jewish refugees in Lithuania, running to more than nine thousand numbered entries; the fullest independent check…
  The 1940 Vilna refugee list has, at entry 6459, Zelmanowicz Froim Lejzer, born 1885 at Sliwicz, who came from Łódź; the year agrees with the age the register gives, and the town with what the archive already holds.
• 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…
• 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 Naturalizatio…

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