Symcha Klapman

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

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…
  #3198, b.1915, from Plonsk
• hunt/familysearch: 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.