Lutyk Zofja

Visa no. 2126 · Kaunas, 22 August 1940

Lutyk Zofja received transit visa no. 2126 at the Japanese consulate in Kaunas on 22 August 1940. Aged 34 in 1940.

Documents

Document — Lutyk Zofja — The Hikawa Maru, arriving at Seattle in 1941: list or manifest of alien passengers, the sheet that names Bertold Weinsberg — US National Archives, Record Group 85 (Immigration and Naturalization Service), Passenger and Crew Lists of Vessels Arriving at Seattle, microfilm publication M1383, roll 261, frame 72 of the file unit “Apr. 28, 1941, SS Hikawa Maru-June 27, 1941, SS Empire Cannery” (NAID 553888815). Public domain; credit: National Archives at Washington, DC.

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What the register records

Nationality as recorded: Polisch
Age in 1940: 34
Family, per the Kitade-Bluman list: children (Wanda (15), Andrze (13), Teresa (10))

The journey

Reached Japan; aided by the Polish ambassador Tadeusz Romer; registered in Kobe for Canada.

Travelled with, and never given a number

Wanda — child, aged 15
Andrze — child, aged 13
Teresa — child, aged 10

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: Zofia Lutyk, Seattle, 1941
"Seattle Passenger Lists", FamilySearch, entry for Zofia Lutyk, 1941. Ship: Hikawa Maru. Matched from the Hikawa Maru's Polish-born passenger list (162 people, 35 matched). Register No.2126 'Lutyk Zofja' records age 34; the manifest gives born 1906, arriving 1941.
"Washington, King, Seattle, Passenger Lists, 1890-1957", FamilySearch — index entry for Zofia Lutyk, 1941: born about 1906, Polish. 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 Zofia Lutyk, born about 1906 in Polish, arriving at Seattle in 1941. The register's compiled line gives 1906, and the two agree. The name occurs once on the register, and a passenger born in Poland landing at Seattle 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.
The Hikawa Maru, arriving at Seattle in 1941: list or manifest of alien passengers, the sheet that names Bertold Weinsberg — US National Archives, Record Group 85 (Immigration and Naturalization Service), Passenger and Crew Lists of Vess…
Arriving at Seattle: the continuation sheet, with the relatives named and the destinations, for the sheet that names Berthold Weinsberg — US National Archives, Record Group 85 (Immigration and Naturalization Service), Passenger and Crew…

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