Sztikgold Stefania

Sztikgold Stefania received transit visa no. 2042 at the Japanese consulate in Kaunas on 20 August 1940. Aged 19 in 1940.

What the register records

Nationality as recorded

Polish

Age in 1940

19

Family, per the Kitade-Bluman list

daughter of #2041

The journey

Destination given in the Kitade-Bluman list: USA.

Where this comes from

• "California, San Francisco, Passenger Lists, 1893-1953", FamilySearch — index entry for Stefanja Justy Sztikgold, 1941: born about 1922, Poland. Digitised from NARA microfilm publication M1410 (passenger lists of vessels arriving at San…
  FamilySearch's index of the San Francisco passenger lists, read by the archive on 20 September 2026, has Stefanja Justy Sztikgold, born about 1922 in Poland, arriving at San Francisco in 1941. The register's compiled line gives 1921, and the two are 1 year apart. The name occurs once on the register, and a Polish-born passenger landing at San Francisco in 1941 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.
• Manifest of alien passengers, Swedish SS Brasil, sailing from Vladivostok, 18 February 1941, arrived San Francisco 4 March 1941 (US National Archives, M1410, film 368; read on FamilySearch's copy; second sheet found by David Rosen)
  The same list shows Stefania Sztikgold, a 19-year-old student born in Warsaw, travelling with her mother from Vladivostok on the Brasil in February 1941 to join her father in New York.
• Manifest of alien passengers, Swedish SS Brasil, sailing from Vladivostok, 18 February 1941, arrived San Francisco 4 March 1941 (US National Archives, M1410, film 368; read on FamilySearch's copy; second sheet found by David Rosen)
  The second sheet of the Brasil's manifest, found by David Rosen, gives the arrival: San Francisco, 4 March 1941. Stefania, 19, a student born at Warsaw, travelled with her mother on an immigration visa issued in Moscow on 16 January 1941, her passage paid by her father, to join him in New York; like her mother she had been in New York before, in 1937 (US National Archives, San Francisco passenger lists; read on FamilySearch's copy, 18 October 2026; found by David Rosen).
• Manifest of alien passengers, Polish liner Piłsudski, sailing from Gdynia 6 July 1937, arrived New York 15 July 1937 (US National Archives, T715; read on FamilySearch's copy; found by David Rosen)
  Stefania had crossed before: on 15 July 1937 she landed at New York from Gdynia on the Piłsudski with her mother, aged 16, a pupil born at Warsaw, a temporary visitor; four years later she came back to stay. The age fits the 19 she gave in 1941 (US National Archives, New York passenger lists; read on FamilySearch's copy, 18 October 2026; found by David Rosen).

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