Rozenbojm Jakob

Visa no. 1998 · Kaunas, 20 August 1940

Rozenbojm Jakob received transit visa no. 1998 at the Japanese consulate in Kaunas on 20 August 1940. The register records tailor, aged 44.

Documents

Document — Rozenbojm Jakob — 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 of Vessels Arriving at Seattle, microfilm publication M1383, roll 257, frame 319 of the file unit “Sept. 26, 1940, SS Shellco-Nov. 7, 1940, SS Shellco” (NAID 553884999). Public domain; credit: National Archives at Washington, DC.

Document — Rozenbojm Jakob — 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 Naturalization Service), Passenger and Crew Lists of Vessels Arriving at Seattle, microfilm publication M1383, roll 257, frame 318 of the file unit “Sept. 26, 1940, SS Shellco-Nov. 7, 1940, SS Shellco” (NAID 553884999). Public domain; credit: National Archives at Washington, DC.

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What the register records

Nationality as recorded: Polish
Age in 1940: 44
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, at entry 4622, Jakób Rozenboim, born 1895 at Krasnystaw, who had come from Warsaw; the year agrees with the register's age.
US arrival manifest: Jakob Mendel Rozenbojm, Seattle, 1940
"Seattle Passenger Lists", FamilySearch, entry for Jakob Mendel Rozenbojm, 1940. Ship: Heian Maru. Matched from the Heian Maru's Polish-born passenger list (198 people, of whom 57 matched the register). Register No.1998 'ozenbojm Jakob' records age 44; the manifest gives born 1895, arriving 1
"Washington, King, Seattle, Passenger Lists, 1890-1957", FamilySearch — index entry for Jakob Mendel Rozenbojm, 1940: born about 1895, 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 Jakob Mendel Rozenbojm, born about 1895 in Poland, arriving at Seattle in 1940. The register's compiled line gives 1896, and the two are 1 year 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 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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