Kaliski Jakob

Kaliski Jakob received transit visa no. 2009 at the Japanese consulate in Kaunas on 20 August 1940. The register records lawyer, aged 46.

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What the register records

Nationality as recorded

Polish

Age in 1940

46

Occupation

Lawyer

Family, per the Kitade-Bluman list

wife Ludwika (42), children (Taduesz (16) ,Stefan (11))

The journey

Reached Japan; registered in Kobe for Canada.

Travelled with, and never given a number

• Ludwika — wife, aged 42
• Taduesz — child, aged 16
• Stefan — child, aged 11

The register recorded visa holders. It did not reliably record the wives and children who travelled on somebody else’s visa, so these people have no entry of their own and cannot be searched for. Where the archive has recovered a name, it is here.

Where this comes from

• US arrival manifest: Jakub Kaliski, Seattle, 1941
  "Seattle Passenger Lists", FamilySearch, entry for Jakub Kaliski, 1941. Ship: Heian Maru. Matched from the Heian Maru's Polish-born passenger list (198 people, of whom 57 matched the register). Register No.2009 'Kaliski Jakob' records age 46; the manifest gives born 1894, arriving 1941. Confi
• "Washington, King, Seattle, Passenger Lists, 1890-1957", FamilySearch — index entry for Jakub Kaliski, 1941: born about 1894, Poland. Digitised from NARA microfilm publication M1383 (passenger and crew lists of vessels arriving at Seattl…
  FamilySearch's index of the Seattle passenger lists, read by the archive on 20 September 2026, has Jakub Kaliski, born about 1894 in Poland, arriving at Seattle in 1941. The register's compiled line gives 1894. A lead only: the register carries 2 lines of this name, and the index entry cannot be assigned to one of them without the manifest sheet.
• 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. 5–7 — "List… — "List of persons who left Japan for Shanghai in the month of July 1941", Nos. 1–15
  He left Yokohama on the Heian Maru ("Heyan M.") on 17 July 1941, bound for Canada (the Jewish Community of Kobe's list of departures, July 1941 (JDC Archives, AR 33/44 file 53)). The list reads: "Kaliski Jakub, ″ Ludwika, ″ Tadeusz, ″ Stefan". (Heian Maru ("Heyan M."), Yokohama, 17 July 1941, destination Canada.)
• The HEIAN, arriving at Seattle in 1941: list or manifest of alien passengers, the sheet that names Jakub Kaliski — US National Archives, Record Group 85 (Immigration and Naturalization Service), Passenger and Crew Lists of Vessels Arrivi…
• Arriving at Seattle: the continuation sheet, with the relatives named and the destinations, for the sheet that names Jakob Kalisky — US National Archives, Record Group 85 (Immigration and Naturalization Service), Passenger and Crew Lists…

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