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.

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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

• 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
• "Washington, King, Seattle, Passenger Lists, 1890-1957", FamilySearch — index entry for Feiga Market, 1940: born about 1920, Poland. Digitised from NARA microfilm publication M1383 (passenger and crew lists of vessels arriving at Seattle…
  FamilySearch's index of the Seattle passenger lists, read by the archive on 20 September 2026, has Feiga Market, born about 1920 in Poland, arriving at Seattle in 1940. The register's compiled line gives 1920, and the two agree. The name occurs once on the register, and a Polish-born passenger landing at Seattle in 1940 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.
• "Washington, King, Seattle, Passenger Lists, 1890-1957", FamilySearch — index entry for Feiga Market, 1940: born about 1920, Poland. Digitised from NARA microfilm publication M1383 (passenger and crew lists of vessels arriving at Seattle…
  The Heian Maru sailed from Kobe in the middle of October 1940 and reached Seattle on 31 October; the tenth page of its manifest, thirty names, all admitted, has Feiga Market, aged 20, single, a tailor, Polish, born at Baranowicze, on a quota immigration visa issued at Tokyo on 10 October 1940, days before the ship sailed. The register gives the age as 20. (The sheet is in the National Archives' passenger and crew lists of vessels arriving at Seattle, microfilm M1383; the archive read FamilySearch's copy.)
• 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…
  The 1940 Vilna refugee list has, at entry 7397, Fejga Market-Szrajer, born in 1920 at Lokajcz, who came from Lokajcz.
• 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)
• The Heian Maru, arriving at Seattle in 1940: list or manifest of alien passengers, the sheet that names Feiga Market — US National Archives, Record Group 85 (Immigration and Naturalization Service), Passenger and Crew Lists of Vessels Ar…
• The Heian Maru, arriving at Seattle in 1940: the continuation sheet, with the relatives named and the destinations, for the sheet that names Feiga Market — US National Archives, Record Group 85 (Immigration and Naturalization Service), P…

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