Symcha Klapman

Visa no. 20 · Kaunas, 26 July 1940

Symcha Klapman received transit visa no. 20 at the Japanese consulate in Kaunas on 26 July 1940. Aged 25 in 1940.

Documents

Document — Symcha Klapman — The Hikawa Maru, arriving at Seattle in 1940: list or manifest of alien passengers, the sheet that names Motelie Kacas or Katz — US National Archives, Record Group 85 (Immigration and Naturalization Service), Passenger and Crew Lists of Vessels Arriving at Seattle, microfilm publication M1383, roll 258, frame 782 of the file unit “Nov. 26, 1940, SS Shellco-Jan. 30, 1941, SS Border King” (NAID 553885966). Public domain; credit: National Archives at Washington, DC.

Document — Symcha Klapman — The Hikawa Maru, arriving at Seattle in 1940: the continuation sheet, with the relatives named and the destinations, for the sheet that names Motelie Kacas or Katz — US National Archives, Record Group 85 (Immigration and Naturalization Service), Passenger and Crew Lists of Vessels Arriving at Seattle, microfilm publication M1383, roll 258, frame 781 of the file unit “Nov. 26, 1940, SS Shellco-Jan. 30, 1941, SS Border King” (NAID 553885966). Public domain; credit: National Archives at Washington, DC.

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What the register records

Nationality as recorded: Polnisch
Age in 1940: 25

The journey

Reached Japan.

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 3198, Symcha Klapman, born 1915 at Płońsk, who had come from Płońsk; the year agrees with the register's age.
US arrival manifest: Symcha Klopman, Seattle, 1940
"Seattle Passenger Lists", FamilySearch, entry for Symcha Klopman, 1940. Ship: Hikawa Maru. Matched from the Hikawa Maru's Polish-born passenger list (162 people, 35 matched). Register No.20 'ymcha Klopman' records age 25; the manifest gives born 1916, arriving 1940.
"Washington, King, Seattle, Passenger Lists, 1890-1957", FamilySearch — index entry for Symcha Klopman, 1940: born about 1916, 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 Symcha Klopman, born about 1916 in Poland, arriving at Seattle in 1940. The register's compiled line gives 1915, 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 Hikawa Maru, arriving at Seattle in 1940: list or manifest of alien passengers, the sheet that names Motelie Kacas or Katz — US National Archives, Record Group 85 (Immigration and Naturalization Service), Passenger and Crew Lists of…
The Hikawa Maru, arriving at Seattle in 1940: the continuation sheet, with the relatives named and the destinations, for the sheet that names Motelie Kacas or Katz — US National Archives, Record Group 85 (Immigration and Naturalization S…

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