Chaim Lwowicz

Chaim Lwowicz received transit visa no. 693 at the Japanese consulate in Kaunas on 1 August 1940. The register records rabbi, aged 32.

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What the register records

Nationality as recorded

Polnisch

Age in 1940

32

Occupation

Rabbi

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 3458, Chaim Lwowicz, born 1908, who had come from Radzyń; the year agrees with the register's age.
• US arrival manifest: Chaim Lvovic or Lwowicz, Seattle, 1940
  "Seattle Passenger Lists", FamilySearch, entry for Chaim Lvovic or Lwowicz, 1940. Ship: Heian Maru. Matched from the Heian Maru's Polish-born passenger list (198 people, of whom 57 matched the register). Register No.693 'Chaim Lwowicz' records age 32; the manifest gives born 1908, arriving 19
• "Washington, King, Seattle, Passenger Lists, 1890-1957", FamilySearch — index entry for Chaim Lvovic or Lwowicz, 1940: born about 1908, Poland. Digitised from NARA microfilm publication M1383 (passenger and crew lists of vessels arriving…
  FamilySearch's index of the Seattle passenger lists, read by the archive on 20 September 2026, has Chaim Lvovic or Lwowicz, born about 1908 in Poland, arriving at Seattle in 1940. The register's compiled line gives 1908, 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.
• "Washington, King, Seattle, Passenger Lists, 1890-1957", FamilySearch — index entry for Chaim Lvovic or Lwowicz, 1940: born about 1908, Poland. Digitised from NARA microfilm publication M1383 (passenger and crew lists of vessels arriving…
  The Heian Maru sailed from Kobe in the middle of October 1940 and reached Seattle on 31 October; the tenth page of its manifest, thirty names, all admitted, has Chaim Lwowicz, aged 32, married, a rabbi, Polish, born in Poland, last residence Vilna, on a non-quota immigration visa for ministers of religion issued at Kaunas, on the line beneath the Liberman family. The register gives the age as 32. (The sheet is in the National Archives' passenger and crew lists of vessels arriving at Seattle, microfilm M1383; the archive read FamilySearch's copy.)
• The Heian Maru, arriving at Seattle in 1940: list or manifest of alien passengers, the sheet that names Feiga Market — US National Archives, Record Group 85 (Immigration and Naturalization Service), Passenger and Crew Lists of Vessels Ar…
• The Heian Maru, arriving at Seattle in 1940: the continuation sheet, with the relatives named and the destinations, for the sheet that names Feiga Market — US National Archives, Record Group 85 (Immigration and Naturalization Service), P…

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