David Herzig

David Herzig received transit visa no. 33 at the Japanese consulate in Kaunas on 27 July 1940. Aged 56 in 1940.

What the register records

Nationality as recorded

Polnisch

Age in 1940

56

Family, per the Kitade-Bluman list

husband of #32, child, father of #42, #50

The journey

Reached Japan.

Where this comes from

• California arriving passenger and crew lists, 1882–1959 (National Archives; indexed on Ancestry.com): the Ginyo Maru, Yokohama to San Pedro, Los Angeles, arrived 19 November 1940. Seen on Ancestry.com by David Rosen, who reported its pas…
  Recorded as David Herzig, aged 55, born 1885 at Kraków, Polish, married, last residence Poland, on the passenger list of the Ginyo Maru from Yokohama, which arrived at San Pedro, Los Angeles, on 19 November 1940 — California arriving passenger and crew lists, 1882–1959, held by the National Archives and indexed on Ancestry.com. The register records him at 56 in July 1940 and places his wife one line above him at No. 32, which the manifest's 'married' fits; his birthplace was not known to the archive before this record. The index names his travelling companion as Wiktor Biegeleisen (so read; it is indexed as 'Tiktor Biegeleiaen'), who is on no line of the register. Whether his wife is on the same sheet is not shown by the index page the archive has seen. Found by David Rosen, September 2026; the scan is Ancestry's and is not reproduced.
• "California, Los Angeles, Passenger Lists, 1907-1948", FamilySearch — index entry for David Herzig, 1940: born about 1885, Krakow, Poland. Digitised from NARA microfilm publication M1764 (passenger lists of vessels arriving at Los Angele…
  FamilySearch's index of the Los Angeles passenger lists, read by the archive on 20 September 2026, has David Herzig, born about 1885 in Krakow, Poland, arriving at Los Angeles in 1940. The register's compiled line gives 1884, 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 a Helena Herzig, aged 17, single, Polish, born at Kraków, last residence Kraków. The register's David Herzig is from the same city and travelled with his wife, and the register makes him the father of two married women on the list; whether Helena was a third child of the family, carried on a parent's visa, the sheet cannot say, and the line is noted here as a possible relative only.
• New York City death certificates, 1944–1946 (Municipal Archives of the City of New York; indexed from the certificates on FamilySearch, "New York, New York City Municipal Deaths, 1795–1949")
  A possible record, not yet confirmed: a New York City death certificate, held by the Municipal Archives and indexed from the document by FamilySearch, is for a David Hersch Herzig, born in 1884 in Poland, a retired merchant, who died in Manhattan on 3 September 1944, with a wife named Minnia. The year is within one of this visa holder's, but the wife's name does not read as the register's Marien, so the certificate is shown as a lead. Read in the index, October 2026.

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