Fajgenbaum Icko

Fajgenbaum Icko received transit visa no. 1915 at the Japanese consulate in Kaunas on 19 August 1940. Aged 33 in 1940.

What the register records

Nationality as recorded

Polish

Age in 1940

33

The journey

Reached Japan; registered in Kobe for USA.

Where this comes from

• Manifest of alien passengers, MS Hikawa Maru, sailing from Kobe 1 November 1940, arrived Seattle 17 November 1940 (NARA, passenger and crew lists of vessels arriving at Seattle, M1383, film 258; read on FamilySearch's copy)
  The National Archives' Seattle passenger list (FamilySearch's copy) shows Icko Faigenbaum, 33, a clerk born in Warsaw, landing at Seattle from Kobe on the Hikawa Maru on 17 November 1940 on an American visitor's visa issued in Tokyo. A later note on the list records his admission as an immigrant at Rouses Point, New York, on 17 October 1942.
• 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 8128, Fajgenbaum Icchok, born 1907, who came from Warsaw; the year agrees with the age the register gives.

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