Alfred Schenker

Alfred Schenker received transit visa no. 477 at the Japanese consulate in Kaunas on 31 July 1940. Aged 42 in 1940.

What the register records

Nationality as recorded

Polnisch

Age in 1940

42

Family, per the Kitade-Bluman list

brother of #476

The journey

Reached Japan; reached Shanghai; aided by the Polish ambassador Tadeusz Romer; registered in Kobe for USA.

Where this comes from

• "California, Los Angeles, Passenger Lists, 1907-1948", FamilySearch — index entry for Alfred Schenker, 1941: born about 1899, Poland. Digitised from NARA microfilm publication M1764 (passenger lists of vessels arriving at Los Angeles). R…
  FamilySearch's index of the Los Angeles passenger lists, read by the archive on 20 September 2026, has Alfred Schenker, born about 1899 in Poland, arriving at Los Angeles in 1941. The register's compiled line gives 1898, and the two are 1 year apart. The name occurs once on the register, and a Polish-born passenger landing at Los Angeles 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.
• "California, Los Angeles, Passenger Lists, 1907-1948", FamilySearch — index entry for Alfred Schenker, 1941: born about 1899, Poland. Digitised from NARA microfilm publication M1764 (passenger lists of vessels arriving at Los Angeles). R…
  The Tatuta Maru sailed from Yokohama on 6 March 1941, took shore leave at Honolulu on the 14th and landed at San Francisco on 20 March 1941; its manifest has Alfred Schenker, aged 42, married, the manager of a chocolate factory, reading English, Polish, born at Kraków, last residence Vilnius, on a Polish quota immigration visa, No. 5450, issued at Tokyo on 3 March 1941, three days before sailing, on the line above his brother Oskar. The register gives his age as 42 and makes him Oskar's brother. (The sheet is in the National Archives' passenger lists of vessels arriving at San Francisco, microfilm M1410; the archive read FamilySearch's copy.)

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