Fejga Market

Fejga Market received transit visa no. 209 at the Japanese consulate in Kaunas on 30 July 1940. The register records tailor, aged 20.

What the register records

Nationality as recorded

Polnisch

Age in 1940

20

Occupation

Tailor

The journey

Reached Japan; registered in Kobe for USA.

What is known

Context (MJH, 'The Journey of the Mirrer Yeshiva'): a telegram of 29 May 1941 from Jacob Kestenbaum in New York to the American Consul General in Yokohama, part of the American rescue efforts that helped Mirrer Yeshiva refugees — like Feiga Magid — obtain onward US visas after their Sugihara-visa escape to Japan.

Where this comes from

• hunt/familysearch: US arrival manifest: Feiga Market, Seattle, 1940
  "Seattle Passenger Lists", FamilySearch, entry for Feiga Market, 1940. Ship: Heian Maru. Matched from the Heian Maru's Polish-born passenger list (198 people, of whom 57 matched the register). Register No.209 'Fejga Market' records age 20; the manifest gives born 1920, arriving 1940. Confiden
• Museum of Jewish Heritage — Leidimas/Sugihara transit visa of Feiga Magid (acc. 44.97, gift of Allen Magid)
• MJH eMuseum object 41.97 (Gift of Allen Magid): Tna'im of Feiga Szrajerówna and Ben Magid, probably 1939
• MJH eMuseum object 43.97 (Gift of Allen Magid): Ketubbah of Fejga Szrajerówna and Ben Magid, 19 August 1939
• MJH eMuseum object 44.97 (Gift of Allen Magid): Leidimas (sauf-conduit) of Feiga Magid, full-resolution scan 1/1 (media 6824)
• MJH eMuseum object 43.97 (Gift of Allen Magid): Ketubbah of Fejga Szrajerowna and Ben Magid, full-resolution scan 1/1 (media 18833)
• MJH eMuseum object 41.97 (Gift of Allen Magid): Tna'im of Feiga Szrajerowna and Ben Magid, full-resolution scan 1/1 (media 18831)