Juliusz Schleicher received transit visa no. 268 at the Japanese consulate in Kaunas on 30 July 1940. The register records clerk, aged 40.
Documents
The Heian Maru, arriving at Seattle in 1941: list or manifest of alien passengers, the sheet that names Emanuel Distler — US National Archives, Record Group 85 (Immigration and Naturalization Service), Passenger and Crew Lists of Vessels Arriving at Seattle, microfilm publication M1383, roll 262, frame 96 of the file unit “June 2, 1941, SS Princess Marguerite-July 7, 1941, SS Hie Maru” (NAID 553889808). Public domain; credit: National Archives at Washington, DC.The Heian Maru, arriving at Seattle in 1941: the continuation sheet, with the relatives named and the destinations, for the sheet that names Norbert Henryk Gorwic — US National Archives, Record Group 85 (Immigration and Naturalization Service), Passenger and Crew Lists of Vessels Arriving at Seattle, microfilm publication M1383, roll 262, frame 97 of the file unit “June 2, 1941, SS Princess Marguerite-July 7, 1941, SS Hie Maru” (NAID 553889808). Public domain; credit: National Archives at Washington, DC.
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What the register records
Nationality as recorded
Polnisch
Age in 1940
40
Occupation
Clerk
The journey
Reached Japan; aided by the Polish ambassador Tadeusz Romer; registered in Kobe for Canada.
The Kobe relatives list — refugees at Kobe in 1941 recorded with their relatives abroad. Seventy-six pages in numbered sheets (LIST No. 7, No. 16 and others), each line giving a name, age, birthplace, occupation and citizenship, and then… Entry 240 of the Kobe community's list of refugees and their relatives abroad: born 1900 at Lwow; relatives abroad: a cousin, Professor Feliks Eile, Cleveland, Ohio; a brother-in-law, the engineer Efraim Lederman, Haifa Technical Institute.
The JEWCOM register — the refugee register kept by the Refugee Committee of the Jewish Community of Kobe (Ashkenazim) at No. 6 Yamamoto-dori, 1-chome, whose cable address was 'JEWCOM Kobe'. Eighty-four pages on the committee's own printe… Entry 600 of the Kobe Jewish Community's refugee register: aged 41, born at Lwow, a manufacturer, who arrived in Japan from Vilnius on 25 February 1941.
US arrival manifest: Juljusz Schleicher, Seattle, 1941 "Seattle Passenger Lists", FamilySearch, entry for Juljusz Schleicher, 1941. Ship: Heian Maru. Matched from the Heian Maru's Polish-born passenger list (198 people, of whom 57 matched the register). Register No.268 'Julusz chleicher' records age 40; the manifest gives born 1900, arriving 1941