Piekarz Lejba

Piekarz Lejba received transit visa no. 1986 at the Japanese consulate in Kaunas on 20 August 1940. The register records tailor.

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What the register records

Nationality as recorded

Polish

Occupation

Tailor

The journey

Reached Japan; registered in Kobe for Canada.

Where this comes from

• 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 a Lejb Piekorz at entry 4332, born 1923 at Ostrów Mazowiecka, who had come from Warsaw; the full name occurs once on the register, and the archive treats the entry as this person's on that basis alone.
• US arrival manifest: Lejba Piekarz, Seattle, 1940
  "Seattle Passenger Lists", FamilySearch, entry for Lejba Piekarz, 1940. Ship: Heian Maru. Matched from the Heian Maru's Polish-born passenger list (198 people, of whom 57 matched the register). Register No.1986 'Piekarz Lejba' records age None; the manifest gives born 1893, arriving 1940. Con
• "Washington, King, Seattle, Passenger Lists, 1890-1957", FamilySearch — index entry for Lejba Piekarz, 1940: born about 1893, Poland. Digitised from NARA microfilm publication M1383 (passenger and crew lists of vessels arriving at Seattl…
  FamilySearch's index of the Seattle passenger lists, read by the archive on 20 September 2026, has Lejba Piekarz, born about 1893 in Poland, arriving at Seattle in 1940. The register has no age for the line. 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.
• Yad Vashem Archives, Jerusalem — the card file of Jewish refugees from Poland who found refuge in various countries, 1939–1941
  Yad Vashem's card file of Jewish refugees from Poland who found refuge in various countries, 1939–1941, has a card for Lejb Piekarz, who was in Wilno during the war. The archive attaches it under its rule of 19 September 2026: the card file is a record of the refugees in Wilno, where the road through Sugihara's visas began; the full name occurs once on the register; and the card places the person in Wilno in 1939–41, on the road to Sugihara's visas. Credit: Yad Vashem Archives.
• 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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