Fiszhaut Paulina received transit visa no. 422 at the Japanese consulate in Kaunas on 30 July 1940. The register records lawyer, aged 28.
What the register records
Nationality as recorded
Polnisch
Age in 1940
28
Occupation
Lawyer
Family, per the Kitade-Bluman list
wife of #421, daughter of #2078, #2080
The journey
Reached Japan; aided by the Polish ambassador Tadeusz Romer; registered in Kobe for Canada.
Where this comes from
hunt/familysearch: US arrival manifest: Paulina Fiszhaut, Seattle, 1941 "Seattle Passenger Lists", FamilySearch, entry for Paulina Fiszhaut, 1941. Ship: Hie Maru. Matched from the Hie Maru's Polish-born passenger list (87 people). Register No.422 'olomon Henryk Fiszhaut' records age 28; the manifest gives born 1911, arriving 1941.
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… She is entered on the line immediately below Solomon Henryk Fiszhaut and marked married, which agrees with the register pairing the two. Her age of 30 sits two years above the register's 28 for 1940. One difference should be set down: the roll enters her occupation as housewife, where the register records her as a lawyer - though these rolls commonly enter married women under that heading whatever their training.