Juliusz Schleicher

Juliusz Schleicher received transit visa no. 268 at the Japanese consulate in Kaunas on 30 July 1940. The register records clerk, aged 40.

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.

Where this comes from

• 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…
  6634, b.1900 Lwow, from Czestochowa
• 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…
  240, 1900 Lwow; cousin Prof.Feliks Eile Cleveland Ohio, brother in law Ing.Efraim Lederman Haifa Technical Institut
• 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…
  no.600, age 41, b. Lwow, manufact., arr 25.2 from Vilno
• hunt/familysearch: 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
• M/S Heian Maru manifest, sheet 21 — List or Manifest of Alien Passengers, sailed Yokohama 27 May 1941, arrived Seattle 7 June 1941, all thirty admitted (NARA M1383, roll 262, Seattle Passenger Lists; retrieved with the owner signed in).…
  M/S Heian Maru, Yokohama 27 May - Seattle 7 June 1941; line 28: 41, clerk, b. Lwow — register neighbour of the Munz couple
• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, Holocaust Survivors and Victims Database — the Flight and Rescue electronic dataset (source 20725): USHMM's own transcription of the Kaunas register, 2,140 persons with citizenship, visa type, iss…
  USHMM Flight and Rescue dataset: arrived in Japan 25 Feb 1941 (line 268)