Majer Klajn

Majer Klajn received transit visa no. 453 at the Japanese consulate in Kaunas on 30 July 1940. Aged 27 in 1940.

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What the register records

Nationality as recorded

Polnisch

Age in 1940

27

Family, per the Kitade-Bluman list

brother-in-law of #455

The journey

Reached Japan; registered in Kobe for USA.

What is known

This is a Polish certificate (Zaswiadczenie/Certificat) issued by the Polish Legation (Poselstwo Rzeczypospolitej Polskiej) in Kaunas, Lithuania, for Majer Klejn, born 15 July 1913 in Warsaw, a married student. The document, dated 25 November 1939, was issued in lieu of a passport and authorized him to travel abroad, confirming he was a Polish citizen.

KLEJN MAJER 15. VII. 1913 Zaswiadczenie Certificat Poselstwo Rzeczypospolitej Polskiej w Kownie okazal w tutejszym Urzedzie dowody, stwierdzajace, ze jest obywatelem polskim.

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 2925, Majer Klajn, born 1913 at Warsaw, who had come from Warsaw; the year agrees with the register's age and Warsaw agrees with the archive's other records.
• "Washington, King, Seattle, Passenger Lists, 1890-1957", FamilySearch — index entry for Majer Klein, 1940: born about 1913, Poland. Digitised from NARA microfilm publication M1383 (passenger and crew lists of vessels arriving at Seattle)…
  FamilySearch's index of the Seattle passenger lists, read by the archive on 20 September 2026, has Majer Klein, born about 1913 in Poland, arriving at Seattle in 1940. The register's compiled line gives 1913, 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.
• Manifest of alien passengers, MS Heian Maru, sailing from Yokohama 10 December 1940, arrived Seattle 24 December 1940, page 9 (NARA, passenger and crew lists of vessels arriving at Seattle, M1383, film 258; read on FamilySearch's copy)
  The Heian Maru sailed from Yokohama on 10 December 1940 and reached Seattle on 24 December 1940; the ninth page of its manifest, thirty names, mostly Japanese and Scandinavian, has Majer Klein, aged 27, married, a teacher, Polish, born at Warsaw, last residence Vilna, on a Polish passport and a non-quota immigration visa for ministers of religion issued at Kaunas on 4 December 1940, with an immigration office note on his later status. The register gives his age as 27 and makes him the brother-in-law of Zorach Warhaftig. (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 certificate of identity issued by the Polish Legation in Kaunas to Majer Klejn (No. 453), 25 November 1939 — another copy.
• Yad Vashem (ex-Warhaftig bundle): Majer Klejn — Polish Legation certificate Nr. K-3??, b. 15 Jul 1913 Warszawa, student, issued 25 Nov 1939
• The Heian Maru, arriving at Seattle in 1940: list or manifest of alien passengers, the sheet that names Szoel Chono Amsterdamski — US National Archives, Record Group 85 (Immigration and Naturalization Service), Passenger and Crew Lists o…
• The Heian Maru, arriving at Seattle in 1940: the continuation sheet, with the relatives named and the destinations, for the sheet that names Szoel Chono Amsterdamski — US National Archives, Record Group 85 (Immigration and Naturalization…

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