Kiwa Szenderowicz received transit visa no. 707 at the Japanese consulate in Kaunas on 1 August 1940. The register records rabbi, aged 27.
Documents
The HEIAN, arriving at Seattle in 1940: list or manifest of alien passengers, the sheet that names Icko Stepak — US National Archives, Record Group 85 (Immigration and Naturalization Service), Passenger and Crew Lists of Vessels Arriving at Seattle, microfilm publication M1383, roll 257, frame 301 of the file unit “Sept. 26, 1940, SS Shellco-Nov. 7, 1940, SS Shellco” (NAID 553884999). Public domain; credit: National Archives at Washington, DC.The HEIAN, arriving at Seattle in 1940: list or manifest of alien passengers, the sheet that names Icko Stepak — US National Archives, Record Group 85 (Immigration and Naturalization Service), Passenger and Crew Lists of Vessels Arriving at Seattle, microfilm publication M1383, roll 257, frame 300 of the file unit “Sept. 26, 1940, SS Shellco-Nov. 7, 1940, SS Shellco” (NAID 553884999). Public domain; credit: National Archives at Washington, DC.
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What the register records
Nationality as recorded
Polnisch
Age in 1940
27
Occupation
Rabbi
The journey
Destination given in the Kitade-Bluman list: USA.
Where this comes from
US arrival manifest: Kiwa Szenderowicz, Seattle, 1940 "Seattle Passenger Lists", FamilySearch, entry for Kiwa Szenderowicz, 1940. Ship: Heian Maru. Matched from the Heian Maru's Polish-born passenger list (198 people, of whom 57 matched the register). Register No.707 'Kiwa zenderowicz' records age 27; the manifest gives born 1912, arriving 1940.