Oler Leja

Oler Leja received transit visa no. 1973 at the Japanese consulate in Kaunas on 19 August 1940. The register records dressmaker, aged 41.

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What the register records

Nationality as recorded

Polish

Age in 1940

41

Occupation

Dressmaker

Family, per the Kitade-Bluman list

daughters (Hinda (12), Chana (12))

The journey

Reached Japan; aided by the Polish ambassador Tadeusz Romer; registered in Kobe for Canada.

Where this comes from

• The Kobe relatives list — refugees at Kobe in 1941 recorded with their relatives abroad. Seventy-six pages in numbered sheets (LIST No. 7, No. 16 and others), each line giving a name, age, birthplace, occupation and citizenship, and then…
  Entry 204 of the Kobe community's list of refugees and their relatives abroad: born 1898 at Grojec.
• The JEWCOM register — the refugee register kept by the Refugee Committee of the Jewish Community of Kobe (Ashkenazim) at No. 6 Yamamoto-dori, 1-chome, whose cable address was 'JEWCOM Kobe'. Eighty-four pages on the committee's own printe…
  The Kobe Jewish Community's refugee register: aged 43, born at Grojec, a tailor, who arrived in Japan on 25 February 1941.
• US arrival manifest: Laja Oler, Seattle, 1941
  "Seattle Passenger Lists", FamilySearch, entry for Laja Oler, 1941. Ship: Heian Maru. Matched from the Heian Maru's Polish-born passenger list (198 people, of whom 57 matched the register). Register No.1973 'Oler Laja' records age 41; the manifest gives born 1899, arriving 1941.
• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, Holocaust Survivors and Victims Database — the Flight and Rescue electronic dataset (source 20725): USHMM's own transcription of the Kaunas register, 2,140 persons with citizenship, visa type, iss…
  USHMM Flight and Rescue dataset: arrived in Japan 25 Feb 1941 (line 1973)
• "Washington, King, Seattle, Passenger Lists, 1890-1957", FamilySearch — index entry for Laja Oler, 1941: born about 1899, 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 Laja Oler, born about 1899 in Poland, arriving at Seattle in 1941. The register's compiled line gives 1898, and the two are 1 year apart. The name occurs once on the register, and a Polish-born passenger landing at Seattle in 1941 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.
• JDC Archives, New York, collection AR 33/44 file 53 (the Jewish Community of Kobe's returns to the JDC, 1941; Set I, item 00761) — Set I pp. 5–7 — "List… — "List of persons who left Japan for Shanghai in the month of July 1941", Nos. 1–15
  She left Yokohama on the Heian Maru ("Heyan M.") on 17 July 1941, bound for Canada (the Jewish Community of Kobe's list of departures, July 1941 (JDC Archives, AR 33/44 file 53)). The list reads: "Oler Leja, ″ Hinda, ″ Chana". (Heian Maru ("Heyan M."), Yokohama, 17 July 1941, destination Canada.)
• The HEIAN, arriving at Seattle in 1941: list or manifest of alien passengers, the sheet that names Jakub Kaliski — US National Archives, Record Group 85 (Immigration and Naturalization Service), Passenger and Crew Lists of Vessels Arrivi…
• Arriving at Seattle: the continuation sheet, with the relatives named and the destinations, for the sheet that names Jakob Kalisky — US National Archives, Record Group 85 (Immigration and Naturalization Service), Passenger and Crew Lists…

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