Ignacy Graff

Ignacy Graff received transit visa no. 272 at the Japanese consulate in Kaunas on 30 July 1940. The register records industrialist, aged 41.

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What the register records

Nationality as recorded

Polnisch

Age in 1940

41

Occupation

Industrialist

Family, per the Kitade-Bluman list

husband of #271

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 6866, Ignacy Graff, born 1899 at Warszawa, who came from Warszawa; the year agrees with the register's compiled age, and his wife Sara, also on the register (No. 271), follows him 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 57 of the Kobe Jewish Community's refugee register: aged 42, born at Warsaw, a merchant.
• US arrival manifest: Sara Graff, Seattle, 1941
  "Seattle Passenger Lists", FamilySearch, entry for Ignacy 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.272 'Ignacy Graff' records age 41; the manifest gives born 1900, arriving 1941. Confiden
• 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 Jan 1941 (line 272)
• "Washington, King, Seattle, Passenger Lists, 1890-1957", FamilySearch — index entry for Ignacy Graff, 1941: born about 1900, 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 Ignacy Graff, born about 1900 in Poland, arriving at Seattle in 1941. The register's compiled line gives 1899, 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
  He 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: "Graff Ignacy, ″ 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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