Bernhard Stein received transit visa no. 264 at the Japanese consulate in Kaunas on 30 July 1940.
Documents
The Hikawa Maru, arriving at Seattle in 1940: list or manifest of alien passengers, the sheet that names Bernhard Bernstein — US National Archives, Record Group 85 (Immigration and Naturalization Service), Passenger and Crew Lists of Vessels Arriving at Seattle, microfilm publication M1383, roll 256, frame 116 of the file unit “Aug. 24, 1940, SS North Sea-Sept. 25, 1940, SS Martha #2” (NAID 553883984). Public domain; credit: National Archives at Washington, DC.The Hikawa Maru, arriving at Seattle in 1940: the continuation sheet, with the relatives named and the destinations, for the sheet that names Bernhard Bernstein — US National Archives, Record Group 85 (Immigration and Naturalization Service), Passenger and Crew Lists of Vessels Arriving at Seattle, microfilm publication M1383, roll 256, frame 115 of the file unit “Aug. 24, 1940, SS North Sea-Sept. 25, 1940, SS Martha #2” (NAID 553883984). Public domain; credit: National Archives at Washington, DC.
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What the register records
Nationality as recorded
Polnisch
Family, per the Kitade-Bluman list
wife Ewa
The journey
Reached Japan; registered in Kobe for Brazil.
Where this comes from
US arrival manifest: Bernhard Bernstein, Seattle, 1940 "Seattle Passenger Lists", FamilySearch, entry for Bernhard Bernstein, 1940. Ship: Hikawa Maru. Matched from the Hikawa Maru's Polish-born passenger list (162 people, 35 matched). Register No.264 'Bernhard tein' records age None; the manifest gives born 1885, arriving 1940.
