Felicia Minc

Felicia Minc received transit visa no. 269 at the Japanese consulate in Kaunas on 30 July 1940. Aged 48 in 1940.

What the register records

Nationality as recorded

Polnisch

Age in 1940

48

Family, per the Kitade-Bluman list

wife of #270

The journey

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

Where this comes from

• 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…
  214, 49, Krakow, Polish; uncle Natan Nutkiewicz Tel Benjamin near Ramath Gan; cousins Leopold Serog 3744 61st Str Woodside LI New York, Henryk Lerer 1133 Broadway New York
• hunt/familysearch: US arrival manifest: Felicja Szczesna Munz, Seattle, 1941
  "Seattle Passenger Lists", FamilySearch, entry for Felicja Szczesna Munz, 1941. Ship: Heian Maru. Matched from the Heian Maru's Polish-born passenger list (198 people, of whom 57 matched the register). Register No.269 'Felicia Munz' records age 48; the manifest gives born 1892, arriving 1941. — CAUTION (George Bluman, 25 August 2026): 'Felicja Munz did not sail with my parents.' An earlier reading by this archive linked her to the Blumans' crossing; he has corrected it and that link is withdrawn. The Heian Maru manifest line stands on its own.
• 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 22: 49, widowed, b. Krakow — the register's adjacent No.270, Rudolf Munz, is not aboard
• S.S. Heian Maru, Yokohama to Vancouver, Canada, 27 May 1941 — list of refugee passengers, HICEM meeting half the cost of the passages. JDC Archives, New York, collection AR 33/44, file 00053, item 00766. One sheet carries four sailings;…
  Listed as "MINC Felicja" among the refugee passengers who left Yokohama to Vancouver on the Heian Maru. The compiled register independently records this line as bound for Canada — which is where this ship was going. The two agree without being derived from one another.