Sadowski Izrael received transit visa no. 2092 at the Japanese consulate in Kaunas on 21 August 1940. Aged 64 in 1940.
What the register records
Nationality as recorded
Polish
Age in 1940
64
The journey
Reached Japan.
Where this comes from
Manifest of alien passengers, SS Asama Maru, sailing from Yokohama, Feb. 20 (day uncertain), 1941, arrived San Francisco date not read (US National Archives, M1410, film 368; read on FamilySearch's copy) The National Archives' San Francisco passenger list (FamilySearch's copy) shows Israel Sadowski, a 64-year-old journalist born in Wiłkomierz, sailing from Yokohama on the Asama Maru in February 1941 on an American business visa issued in Tokyo, to join his brother in New York; a later note on the list records that he was re-admitted for permanent residence at Buffalo in April 1945.