Roza Aszkenazy

Roza Aszkenazy received transit visa no. 603 at the Japanese consulate in Kaunas on 1 August 1940. The register records clerk, aged 55.

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What the register records

Nationality as recorded

Polnisch

Age in 1940

55

Occupation

Clerk

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 Roza Aszknazi at entry 170 with no further detail; the full name occurs once on the register, and the archive treats the entry as this person's on that basis alone.
• 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 10 of the Kobe community's list of refugees and their relatives abroad: aged 55, born at Brzesc, a clerk, with citizenship written Polish/Canada; relatives abroad: a sister, Szereszewska, and a brother, Bierstein, Hotel Broadmeer, 235 West 108th Street, New York City.
• List or Manifest of Alien Passengers for the United States - M.S. Hie Maru, which sailed from Kobe on 23 June and from Yokohama on 26 June 1941 and reached Seattle on 7 July 1941; list 19, the sheet stamped 34251/24, sailing from Yokoham…
  Line 6 of the sheet. ASZKENAZY, ROZA, 55, female, widowed; reads Polish and German and writes; Polish nationality, Hebrew; born at Brzesc, last permanent residence Warsaw. The register has her as Roza Aszkenazy, 55, a clerk, going to Canada. Surname, given name and age agree exactly, and so does the destination: she was detained on board at Seattle on 7 July 1941 and her departure for a foreign port was witnessed the following day, the ship going on to Vancouver.
• "Washington, King, Seattle, Passenger Lists, 1890-1957", FamilySearch — index entry for Roza Aszkenazy, 1941: born about 1886, Poland. Digitised from NARA microfilm publication M1383 (passenger and crew lists of vessels arriving at Seatt…
  FamilySearch's index of the Seattle passenger lists, read by the archive on 20 September 2026, has Roza Aszkenazy, born about 1886 in Poland, arriving at Seattle in 1941. The register's compiled line gives 1885, 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)
  She left Yokohama on the Hie Maru on 26 June 1941, bound for Canada (the Jewish Community of Kobe's list of departures, June 1941 (JDC Archives, AR 33/44 file 53)). The list reads: Hie Maru sheet: "Aszkenazy Rosa — 1 — (ditto: Canada)". (Hie Maru, Yokohama, 26 June 1941, the USA and Canada.)
• A ship, arriving at Seattle in 1941: list or manifest of alien passengers, the sheet that names Roza Aszkenazy — 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 Roza Aszkenazy — US National Archives, Record Group 85 (Immigration and Naturalization Service), Passenger and Crew List…

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