Sara Graff

Sara Graff received transit visa no. 271 at the Japanese consulate in Kaunas on 30 July 1940. Aged 44 in 1940.

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What the register records

Nationality as recorded

Polnisch

Age in 1940

44

Family, per the Kitade-Bluman list

wife of #272

The journey

Reached Japan; 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…
  The 1940 Vilna refugee list has, at entry 6867, Sara Graff, born 1896 at Lodz, who came from Warszawa; the year agrees with the register's compiled age, and her husband Ignacy, also on the register (No. 272), stands just above her on the list.
• 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 58 of the Kobe Jewish Community's refugee register: aged 47, born at Lodz, who arrived in Japan from Vilnius on 24 January 1941.
• US arrival manifest: Sara Graff, Seattle, 1941
  "Seattle Passenger Lists", FamilySearch, entry for Sara Graff, 1941. Ship: Heian Maru. Matched from the Heian Maru's Polish-born passenger list (198 people, of whom 57 matched the register). Register No.271 'ara Graff' records age 44; the manifest gives born 1897, arriving 1941.
• "Washington, King, Seattle, Passenger Lists, 1890-1957", FamilySearch — index entry for Sara Graff, 1941: born about 1897, Poland. 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 Sara Graff, born about 1897 in Poland, arriving at Seattle in 1941. The register's compiled line gives 1896, and the two are 1 year apart. The name occurs once on the register, and a Polish-born passenger 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.
• JDC Archives, New York, collection AR 33/44 file 53 (the Jewish Community of Kobe's returns to the JDC, 1941; Set I, item 00761) — Set… — "List of refugees who left Japan to places other than Shanghai in the month of May 1941", Nos. 1–321
  She left Yokohama on the Heian Maru on 27 May 1941, bound for Canada (the Jewish Community of Kobe's list of departures, May 1941 (JDC Archives, AR 33/44 file 53)). The list reads: "″ Sara". (Heian Maru, Yokohama, 27 May 1941.)
• The Heian Maru, arriving at Seattle in 1941: list or manifest of alien passengers, the sheet that names Romana Bronowski — US National Archives, Record Group 85 (Immigration and Naturalization Service), Passenger and Crew Lists of Vessel…
• Arriving at Seattle: the continuation sheet, with the relatives named and the destinations, for the sheet that names Romana Bronowski — US National Archives, Record Group 85 (Immigration and Naturalization Service), Passenger and Crew Li…

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