Mejer Liberman

Mejer Liberman received transit visa no. 428 at the Japanese consulate in Kaunas on 30 July 1940. The register records rabbi, aged 46.

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What the register records

Nationality as recorded

Polnisch

Age in 1940

46

Occupation

Rabbi

Family, per the Kitade-Bluman list

wife Genia (42), children (Abram (2), Szulamit (8))

The journey

Reached Japan; registered in Kobe for USA.

Travelled with, and never given a number

• Genia — wife, aged 42
• Abram — child, aged 2
• Szulamit — child, aged 8

The register recorded visa holders. It did not reliably record the wives and children who travelled on somebody else’s visa, so these people have no entry of their own and cannot be searched for. Where the archive has recovered a name, it is here.

Where this comes from

• 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 3407, Mejer Liberman, born 1894 at Stołpce, who had come from Jeleniew; the year agrees with the register's age.
• US arrival manifest: Mejer Liberman, Seattle, 1940
  "Seattle Passenger Lists", FamilySearch, entry for Mejer Liberman, 1940. Ship: Heian Maru. Matched from the Heian Maru's Polish-born passenger list (198 people, of whom 57 matched the register). Register No.428 'Mejer Liberman' records age 46; the manifest gives born 1894, arriving 1940. Conf
• The Shanghai Ledger — register of Polish citizens kept by the Consulate of Poland in Shanghai, 1934-1943 (original at the Archives of the Polish Ministry of Foreign Affairs, ref. 43/2003; digitised by the Library of Congress; indexed as…
  Registered with the Polish Consulate in Shanghai (ledger entry 925); the names closely match this register line — approved by the owner's review, 19 Aug 2026
• "Washington, King, Seattle, Passenger Lists, 1890-1957", FamilySearch — index entry for Mejer Liberman, 1940: born about 1894, Poland. Digitised from NARA microfilm publication M1383 (passenger and crew lists of vessels arriving at Seatt…
  FamilySearch's index of the Seattle passenger lists, read by the archive on 20 September 2026, has Mejer Liberman, born about 1894 in Poland, arriving at Seattle in 1940. The register's compiled line gives 1894, and the two agree. The name occurs once on the register, and a Polish-born passenger landing at Seattle 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.
• "Washington, King, Seattle, Passenger Lists, 1890-1957", FamilySearch — index entry for Mejer Liberman, 1940: born about 1894, Poland. Digitised from NARA microfilm publication M1383 (passenger and crew lists of vessels arriving at Seatt…
  The Heian Maru sailed from Kobe in the middle of October 1940 and reached Seattle on 31 October; the tenth page of its manifest, thirty names, all admitted, has Mejer Liberman, aged 46, married, a rabbi, born at Stołpce in Poland, last residence Vilna, on a non-quota immigration visa for ministers of religion issued at Kaunas on 19 July 1940, with his wife Genia, 42, and their children Szulamis, 8, and Abram, 2. The register gives the age as 46. (The sheet is in the National Archives' passenger and crew lists of vessels arriving at Seattle, microfilm M1383; the archive read FamilySearch's copy.)
• The Heian Maru, arriving at Seattle in 1940: list or manifest of alien passengers, the sheet that names Feiga Market — US National Archives, Record Group 85 (Immigration and Naturalization Service), Passenger and Crew Lists of Vessels Ar…
• The Heian Maru, arriving at Seattle in 1940: the continuation sheet, with the relatives named and the destinations, for the sheet that names Feiga Market — US National Archives, Record Group 85 (Immigration and Naturalization Service), P…

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