Mieczyslaw Lichtenbaum

Mieczyslaw Lichtenbaum received transit visa no. 306 at the Japanese consulate in Kaunas on 30 July 1940. The register records customs broker, chauffeur, aged 50.

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What the register records

Nationality as recorded

Polnisch

Age in 1940

50

Occupation

Customs Broker, Chauffeur

Family, per the Kitade-Bluman list

brother of #305

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…
  Entry 173 of the Kobe community's list of refugees and their relatives abroad: born 1890 at Warsaw.
• 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 421 of the Kobe Jewish Community's refugee register: aged 51, born at Warsaw, a clerk, who arrived in Japan from Vilnius on 25 February 1941.
• US arrival manifest: Wladyslaw Lichtenbaum, Seattle, 1941
  "Seattle Passenger Lists", FamilySearch, entry for Mieczyslaw Lichtenbaum, 1941. Ship: Hie Maru. Matched from the Hie Maru's Polish-born passenger list (87 people). Register No.306 'Mieczyslaw Lichtenbaum' records age 50; the manifest gives born 1890, arriving 1941.
• 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 306)
• List or Manifest of Alien Passengers for the United States — M.S. Hie Maru, sailing Yokohama 26 June… — 'Passenger and Crew Lists of Vessels Arriving at Seattle, Washington'. Located through the National Archives Catalog, 29 August 2026.
  Line 6 of the sheet, directly below his brother. LICHTENBAUM, MIECZYSLAW, 51, male, single, clerk; reads English, Polish and German and writes; Polish nationality, Hebrew. The register has him as Mieczyslaw Lichtenbaum, 50, a customs broker and chauffeur, brother of No. 305, going to Canada - and No. 305, Wladyslaw Lichtenbaum, is the line above him here. The given name agrees, the age is one year on from a list compiled in 1940, and the brotherhood the register records from the Kaunas end is what the manifest shows from the Seattle end: two Lichtenbaum men travelling together, on consecutive lines, nine and ten months later. Detained on arrival by Immigrant Inspector Raymond H. Bank with all nine on the sheet and identified the next day by Immigrant Inspector Albert Wolstenholme.
• The arrival-side half of the list 21 sheet of the M.S. Hie Maru, which sailed from Kobe on 23 June and from Yokohama on 26 June 1941 and reached Seattle on 7 July 1941 - the page headed 'States Immigrant Inspector at Port of Arrival', ar…
  The arrival-side half of the same sheet, line 6. Against his name the relative column reads 'With Brother' and the final destination reads 'Going to Canada'. He paid his own passage. The register's note that he was the brother of No. 305, and its 'Canada' against his number, were compiled from a different source altogether; both are set down here in the inspector's own columns.
• "Washington, King, Seattle, Passenger Lists, 1890-1957", FamilySearch — index entry for Mieczyslaw Lichtenbaum, 1941: born about 1890, Poland. Digitised from NARA microfilm publication M1383 (passenger and crew lists of vessels arriving…
  FamilySearch's index of the Seattle passenger lists, read by the archive on 20 September 2026, has Mieczyslaw Lichtenbaum, born about 1890 in Poland, arriving at Seattle in 1941. The register's compiled line gives 1890, and the two agree. 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 Ko… — "List of departures for the month of June, 1941" (Jewish Community of Kobe, Migration Office; covering letter p. 12, Kobe, July 1941, HICEM-funded tickets)
  He left Yokohama on the Hie Maru on 26 June 1941, bound for Canada (the Jewish Community of Kobe's list of departures, June 1941 (JDC Archives, AR 33/44 file 53)). The list reads: Hie Maru sheet: "(as above) "& brother Mieczyslaw"". (Hie Maru, Yokohama, 26 June 1941, the USA and Canada.)
• The HIE, arriving at Seattle in 1941: list or manifest of alien passengers, the sheet that names Wladyslaw Lichtenbaum — US National Archives, Record Group 85 (Immigration and Naturalization Service), Passenger and Crew Lists of Vessels…
• Arriving at Seattle: the continuation sheet, with the relatives named and the destinations, for the sheet that names Wladyslaw Lichtenbaum — US National Archives, Record Group 85 (Immigration and Naturalization Service), Passenger and Cr…

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