Federman Rafal
Visa no. 2000 · Kaunas, 20 August 1940
Federman Rafal received transit visa no. 2000 at the Japanese consulate in Kaunas on 20 August 1940. The register records clerk, aged 48.
What the register records Nationality as recorded Polish Age in 1940 48 Occupation Clerk Family, per the Kitade-Bluman list husband of #1999
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… 1369, Czestochowa, 1692, from Czestochowa hunt/familysearch: US arrival manifest: Chana Federman, Seattle, 1940 "Seattle Passenger Lists", FamilySearch, entry for Rafal 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.2000 'Federman afal' records age 48; the manifest gives born 1892, arriving 1940. Conf
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Federman Rafal is one of 2,140 people recorded in the surviving register of the transit
visas Chiune Sugihara issued at the Japanese consulate in Kaunas, Lithuania, in 1940.
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