Edward Rozenholc

Edward Rozenholc received transit visa no. 510 at the Japanese consulate in Kaunas on 31 July 1940. The register records industrialist, aged 30.

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What the register records

Nationality as recorded

Polnisch

Age in 1940

30

Occupation

Industrialist

The journey

Reached Japan; aided by the Polish ambassador Tadeusz Romer; registered in Kobe for Canada.

Where this comes from

• The Kobe relatives list — refugees at Kobe in 1941 recorded with their relatives abroad. Seventy-six pages in numbered sheets (LIST No. 7, No. 16 and others), each line giving a name, age, birthplace, occupation and citizenship, and then…
  Entry 279 of the Kobe community's list of refugees and their relatives abroad: aged 31, born at Lodz, a merchant; relatives abroad: a cousin, S. Klajman, 5 Hess Street, Tel Aviv.
• US arrival manifest: Edward Rozenholc, Seattle, 1941
  "Seattle Passenger Lists", FamilySearch, entry for Edward Rozenholc, 1941. Ship: Hikawa Maru. Matched from the Hikawa Maru's Polish-born passenger list (162 people, 35 matched). Register No.510 'Edward ozenholz' records age 30; the manifest gives born 1911, arriving 1941.
• "Washington, King, Seattle, Passenger Lists, 1890-1957", FamilySearch — index entry for Edward Rozenholc, 1941: born about 1911, Poland. Digitised from NARA microfilm publication M1383 (passenger and crew lists of vessels arriving at Sea…
  FamilySearch's index of the Seattle passenger lists, read by the archive on 20 September 2026, has Edward Rozenholc, born about 1911 in Poland, arriving at Seattle in 1941. The register's compiled line gives 1910, and the two are 1 year apart. The name occurs once on the register, and a Polish-born passenger landing at Seattle 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.
• JDC Archives, New York, collection AR 33/44 file 53 (the Jewish Community of Ko… — "List of departures for the month of June, 1941" (Jewish Community of Kobe, Migration Office; covering letter p. 12, Kobe, July 1941, HICEM-funded tickets)
  He left Yokohama on the Hikawa Maru on 5 June 1941, bound for Vancouver (the Jewish Community of Kobe's list of departures, June 1941 (JDC Archives, AR 33/44 file 53)). The list reads: Hikawa Maru sheet: "Rozenholc, Edward — 1". (Hikawa Maru, Yokohama, 5 June 1941, Vancouver.)
• The Hikawa Maru, arriving at Seattle in 1941: list or manifest of alien passengers, the sheet that names Mojsze Szymkiewicz — US National Archives, Record Group 85 (Immigration and Naturalization Service), Passenger and Crew Lists of Ves…
• Arriving at Seattle: the continuation sheet, with the relatives named and the destinations, for the sheet that names Mojsze Szymkiewicz — US National Archives, Record Group 85 (Immigration and Naturalization Service), Passenger and Crew…

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