Salomon Henryk Fiszhaut

Salomon Henryk Fiszhaut received transit visa no. 421 at the Japanese consulate in Kaunas on 30 July 1940. The register records physician, aged 36.

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What the register records

Nationality as recorded

Polnisch

Age in 1940

36

Occupation

Physician

Family, per the Kitade-Bluman list

husband of #422

The journey

Reached Japan; aided by the Polish ambassador Tadeusz Romer; registered in Kobe for Canada.

What is known

The Honigbergs reached San Francisco together in May 1941 — the button king Zelig, his wife Rajzla Matla, their son Bronislaw, and daughter Paulina with her husband, the physician Solomon Henryk Fiszhaut. US immigration detained them all. After two weeks the parents and brother were admitted; Paulina and her husband were put back aboard the same steamer that had carried them across the Pacific and deported. One family, one voyage, two verdicts — the arbitrary line between the saved and the returned, drawn at the pier of the Golden Gate.

The Pacific crossing is found: Dr. Solomon Henryk Fiszhaut (37) and Paulina Fiszhaut (30) arrived at Seattle in 1941 aboard the NYK liner Hie Maru, on the same manifest page — the same Seattle gateway the Nowogrodzki family used. Paulina appears again in the California naturalization index. Their son Mark Fishaut is in contact with this archive through Arlette Liwer.

The manifest itself is now in the archive, and it holds a discovery: Dr. Solomon Henryk Fiszhaut — a 37-year-old physician of Warsaw — and Paulina sailed from Yokohama on 7 May 1941 aboard the Hie Maru, and six lines below them on the same sheet are Arthur, Miriam and two-year-old Zoria Lermer, the family of the Montreal Holocaust Museum safe-conduct. Two of the archive's families crossed the Pacific on one ship.

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 57 of the Kobe community's list of refugees and their relatives abroad: born 1903 at Warszawa; relatives abroad: a sister-in-law, Augustine Fiszhaut, La Condre, Neuchatel, Switzerland; a cousin, Otto Gerdau, 533-541 Canal Street, New York.
• US arrival manifest: Paulina Fiszhaut, Seattle, 1941
  "Seattle Passenger Lists", FamilySearch, entry for Solomon Henryk Fiszhaut, 1941. Ship: Hie Maru. Matched from the Hie Maru's Polish-born passenger list (87 people). Register No.421 'olomon Henryk Fiszhaut' records age 36; the manifest gives born 1904, 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 421)
• Fragment of a typed nominal roll of refugees, photographed close in. Each line is numbered and gives surname, given name, age, sex, marital state and occupation, with a hand-written code entered in the left margin against every name. The…
  The roll carries the double given name Solomon Henryk exactly as the register has it, and gives his occupation as medical doctor, where the register records him as a physician. His age of 37 sits one year above the register's 36 for 1940, which is what a roll drawn up a year later would give. He is entered as married, on the line immediately above Paulina Fiszhaut, and the register pairs the two.
• FamilySearch passenger-list records (searched 10 Aug 2026, lead from the owner): Fiszhaut couple — Seattle Passenger Lists 1890-1957 (NARA M1383, film 261), Solomon Henryk Fiszhaut (37, b.1904 Poland) and Paulina Fiszhaut (b.1911 Poland)…
  FamilySearch's index of the Seattle passenger lists, read by the archive on 20 September 2026, has Solomon Henryk Fiszhaut, born about 1904 in Poland, arriving at Seattle in 1941. The register's compiled line gives 1903, 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.
• 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…
  The Kobe Jewish Community's refugee register lists Salomon Henryk Fiszhaut, aged 37, born at Warsaw, a physician, who reached Japan on 25 February 1941. Sugihara's ledger lost the first letter of his given name; the register has it in full.
• Yad Vashem Archives, Jerusalem — the card file of Jewish refugees from Poland who found refuge in various countries, 1939–1941
  Yad Vashem's card file of Jewish refugees from Poland who found refuge in various countries, 1939–1941, has a card for Henryk Fischhaut, a doctor of medicine born in 1902, of Warsaw, married to Paulina, who was in Wilno during the war; the year, the city, the profession and his wife's name agree with this register line. Credit: Yad Vashem Archives.
• 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 1488, Dr. Salomon-Henryk Fiszhaut, born in 1903 at Warszawa.
• Gonikberg family history post (owner submission, Jul 2026): Zelig Honigberg — "the button king of Eur… — marked Det./deported), Białystok→Vilno railway ticket, and the famous photo of Sugihara seeing refugees off at Kaunas railway station
• FamilySearch passenger-list records (searched 10 Aug 2026, lead from the owner): Fiszhaut couple — Seattle Passenger Lists 1890-1957 (NARA M1383, film 261), Solomon Henryk Fiszhaut (37, b.1904 Poland) and Paulina Fiszhaut (b.1911 Poland)…
• The Hie Maru, sailed Yokohama 7 May 1941 for Seattle: list or manifest of alien passengers, sheet 22 — the sheet that names Dr Solomon Henryk Fiszhaut and Paulina Fiszhaut of Warsaw, and… — the National Archives' own frame is on the page.
• Polish passport of Dr. Salomon Henryk Fiszhaut, series I No. 274430 (Warsaw): identity page naming his wife Paulina as accompanying — family collection of their son Mark Fishaut, Aug 2026
• The same Fiszhaut passport, page 26: Canadian Immigration, Vancouver B.C., 20 May 1941 — admitted as non-immigrants for the duration of the war (file 70572); second stamp: Landed Immigrant, 2… — family collection of Mark Fishaut, Aug 2026
• Canadian certificate No. 53417: acquisition of British nationality by Paulina Luba Dina Fishaut (Fiszhaut), a married woman whose husband was naturalized, 27 December 1946 — family collection of Mark Fishaut, Aug 2026

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