Samuel Kurlandski

Samuel Kurlandski received transit visa no. 561 at the Japanese consulate in Kaunas on 31 July 1940. The register records chemist, aged 29.

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What the register records

Nationality as recorded

Polnisch

Age in 1940

29

Occupation

Chemist

The journey

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

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 3231, Samuel Kurlandzki, born 1911 at Warsaw, who had come from Warsaw; the year agrees with the register's age and Warsaw agrees with the archive's other records.
• 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…
  The Kobe community's list of refugees and their relatives abroad: born at Warszawa, Polish; relatives abroad: a brother, Monusz Kurlandski, care of B. J. Weinberg, Room 907, 553 Fifth Avenue.
• The JEWCOM register — the refugee register kept by the Refugee Committee of the Jewish Community of Kobe (Ashkenazim) at No. 6 Yamamoto-dori, 1-chome, whose cable address was 'JEWCOM Kobe'. Eighty-four pages on the committee's own printe…
  Entry 398 of the Kobe Jewish Community's refugee register: aged 30, born at Warsaw, a clerk, who arrived in Japan from Kaunas on 2 February 1941.
• "Washington, King, Seattle, Passenger Lists, 1890-1957", FamilySearch — index entry for Samuel Kurlandzki, 1941: born about 1912, Poland. Digitised from NARA microfilm publication M1383 (passenger and crew lists of vessels arriving at Se…
  FamilySearch's index of the Seattle passenger lists, read by the archive on 20 September 2026, has Samuel Kurlandzki, born about 1912 in Poland, arriving at Seattle in 1941. The register's compiled line gives 1911, 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: "Kurlandzki Samuel — 1". (Hikawa Maru, Yokohama, 5 June 1941, Vancouver.)
• A ship, arriving at Seattle in 1941: list or manifest of alien passengers, the sheet that names Zygmumt Glass — US National Archives, Record Group 85 (Immigration and Naturalization Service), Passenger and Crew Lists of Vessels Arriving…
• Arriving at Seattle: the continuation sheet, with the relatives named and the destinations, for the sheet that names Zygmunt Glass — US National Archives, Record Group 85 (Immigration and Naturalization Service), Passenger and Crew Lists…

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