Chawa Szmaragd

Visa no. 293 · Kaunas, 30 July 1940

Chawa Szmaragd received transit visa no. 293 at the Japanese consulate in Kaunas on 30 July 1940. Aged 28 in 1940.

What the register records

Reached Japan.

"California, Los Angeles, Passenger Lists, 1907-1948", FamilySearch — index entry for Chawa Szmaragd, 1940: born about 1913, Warsow, Poland. Digitised from NARA microfilm publication M1764 (passenger lists of vessels arriving at Los Ange…
FamilySearch's index of the Los Angeles passenger lists, read by the archive on 20 September 2026, has Chawa Szmaragd, born about 1913 in Warsow, Poland, arriving at Los Angeles in 1940. The register's compiled line gives 1912, and the two are 1 year apart. The name occurs once on the register, and a Polish-born passenger landing at Los Angeles in 1940 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.
Manifest of alien passengers in transit, SS Ginyo Maru, sailing from Yokohama 24 October 1940, at San Pedro (Los Angeles) November 1940 (NARA A3385, lists of passengers arriving at San Pedro/Los Angeles in transit, roll 27; read on Famil…
The Ginyo Maru sailed from Yokohama on 24 October 1940 with a handful of Polish passengers holding no American visas, bound beyond the United States: the inspector at Honolulu ordered them kept on board on 7 November, shore leave was refused at San Pedro, and the ship left San Pedro on 20 November 1940 with them. Its manifest has Chawa Szmaragd, aged 27, married, a housewife, Polish, born at Warsaw, last residence Vilnius. The register's compiled line gives her age as 28.