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Nauma Warhaftig received transit visa no. 454 at the Japanese consulate in Kaunas on 30 July 1940. Aged 25 in 1940.
Documents
The Hikawa Maru, arriving at Seattle in 1941: list or manifest of alien passengers, the sheet that names Nauma Warhaftig — US National Archives, Record Group 85 (Immigration and Naturalization Service), Passenger and Crew Lists of Vessels Arriving at Seattle, microfilm publication M1383, roll 262, frame 512 of the file unit “June 2, 1941, SS Princess Marguerite-July 7, 1941, SS Hie Maru” (NAID 553889808). Public domain; credit: National Archives at Washington, DC.Arriving at Seattle: the continuation sheet, with the relatives named and the destinations, for the sheet that names Nauma Warhaftig — US National Archives, Record Group 85 (Immigration and Naturalization Service), Passenger and Crew Lists of Vessels Arriving at Seattle, microfilm publication M1383, roll 262, frame 513 of the file unit “June 2, 1941, SS Princess Marguerite-July 7, 1941, SS Hie Maru” (NAID 553889808). Public domain; credit: National Archives at Washington, DC.
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What the register records
Nationality as recorded
Polnisch
Age in 1940
25
Family, per the Kitade-Bluman list
wife of #455
The journey
Reached Japan; registered in Kobe for Canada.
Where this comes from
US arrival manifest: Zorach Warhaftig, Seattle, 1941 "Seattle Passenger Lists", FamilySearch, entry for Nauma Warhaftig, 1941. Ship: Hikawa Maru. Matched from the Hikawa Maru's Polish-born passenger list (162 people, 35 matched). Register No.454 'Nauma arhaftig' records age 25; the manifest gives born 1915, arriving 1941.