Federman Chana

Federman Chana received transit visa no. 1999 at the Japanese consulate in Kaunas on 20 August 1940. Aged 37 in 1940.

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What the register records

Nationality as recorded

Polish

Age in 1940

37

Family, per the Kitade-Bluman list

wife of #2000

The journey

Reached Japan; registered in Kobe for USA.

Where this comes from

• US arrival manifest: Chana Federman, Seattle, 1940
  "Seattle Passenger Lists", FamilySearch, entry for Chana Federman, 1940. Ship: Heian Maru. Matched from the Heian Maru's Polish-born passenger list (198 people, of whom 57 matched the register). Register No.1999 'Federman Chana' records age 37; the manifest gives born 1902, arriving 1940. Con
• "Washington, King, Seattle, Passenger Lists, 1890-1957", FamilySearch — index entry for Chana Federman, 1940: born about 1902, Poland. Digitised from NARA microfilm publication M1383 (passenger and crew lists of vessels arriving at Seatt…
  FamilySearch's index of the Seattle passenger lists, read by the archive on 20 September 2026, has Chana Federman, born about 1902 in Poland, arriving at Seattle in 1940. The register's compiled line gives 1903, 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.
• 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. 24–32 — April 1941 (and a May continuation sheet)
  She left Yokohama on the Hikawa Maru on 17 April 1941, bound for the USA (the Jewish Community of Kobe's list of refugees who left Japan in April 1941 (JDC Archives, AR 33/44 file 53)). The list reads: "″ Chana". (Hikawa Maru, Yokohama, 17 April 1941, the USA.)
• A visa page with Zwartendijk's Curaçao declaration No. 1999, the Sugihara transit visa of 1 August 1940, a British visa for Palestine and Japanese landing stamps; the holder is not named on the page.
• 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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