Szpicman Lejb

Szpicman Lejb received transit visa no. 1994 at the Japanese consulate in Kaunas on 20 August 1940. Aged 34 in 1940.

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What the register records

Nationality as recorded

Polish

Age in 1940

34

The journey

Reached Japan; registered in Kobe for USA.

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 Szpizman at entry 5674, born 1903, who had come from Warsaw. It is shown as a lead, not as this person: spelled Szpizman; born 1903 against the register's age of 34, which puts the birth about 1906.
• "Washington, King, Seattle, Passenger Lists, 1890-1957", FamilySearch — index entry for Leib Szpizman, 1940: born about 1903, 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 Leib Szpizman, born about 1903 in Poland, arriving at Seattle in 1940. The register's compiled line gives 1906, and the two are 3 years apart. 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 Hikawa Maru, Kobe to Seattle, arrived 17 November 1940: list or manifest of alien passengers, sheet 7 (Judelis Lifsycas on line 4) — US National Archives, Record Group 85 (Immigration and Naturalization Service), Passenger and Crew L…
• The Hikawa Maru, Kobe to Seattle, arrived 17 November 1940: the continuation sheet for sheet 7, with the relatives named and the destinations (Judelis Lifsycas on line 4, to his brother in Omaha) — US National Archives, Record Group 85 (…

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