Szloma Berman

Szloma Berman received transit visa no. 615 at the Japanese consulate in Kaunas on 1 August 1940. Aged 22 in 1940.

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What the register records

Nationality as recorded

Polnisch

Age in 1940

22

The journey

Reached Japan; registered in Kobe for USA.

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 8019, Szloma Berman, born 1918 at Szczucin, who had come from Szczucin; the year agrees with the register's compiled age.
• "Washington, King, Seattle, Passenger Lists, 1890-1957", FamilySearch — index entry for Saoma or Sloma Berman, 1940: born about 1918, Poland. Digitised from NARA microfilm publication M1383 (passenger and crew lists of vessels arriving a…
  FamilySearch's index of the Seattle passenger lists, read by the archive on 20 September 2026, has Saoma or Sloma Berman, born about 1918 in Poland, arriving at Seattle in 1940. The register's compiled line gives 1918, and the two agree. The name occurs once on the register, and a Polish-born passenger landing at Seattle in 1940 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.
• Manifest of alien passengers, SS Heian Maru, sailing from Yokohama 18 Oct 1940, arrived Seattle 31 Oct 1940 (US National Archives, M1383, roll 257; read on FamilySearch's copy)
  The National Archives' Seattle passenger list (FamilySearch's copy) shows Szloma Berman, 22, a student born in Szczuczyn, landing at Seattle from Yokohama on the Heian Maru on 31 October 1940 with an American quota visa issued in Tokyo on 15 October. His father was still in Szczuczyn; he was going to an uncle, E. Berman, in Brooklyn.
• The HEIAN, arriving at Seattle in 1940: list or manifest of alien passengers, the sheet that names Saoma or Sloma Berman — US National Archives, Record Group 85 (Immigration and Naturalization Service), Passenger and Crew Lists of Vessel…

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