Chaja Szadba Sztokchamer

Chaja Szadba Sztokchamer received transit visa no. 735 at the Japanese consulate in Kaunas on 1 August 1940. Aged 54 in 1940.

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What the register records

Nationality as recorded

Polnisch

Age in 1940

54

The journey

Reached Japan.

Where this comes from

• "Washington, King, Seattle, Passenger Lists, 1890-1957", FamilySearch — index entry for Chaja Tauba Stochhamer, 1941: born about 1888, Polish. 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 Chaja Tauba Stochhamer, born about 1888 in Polish, arriving at Seattle in 1941. The surname is the register's and rare on it, and the given name is close but not the same; a lead, not an identification.
• JDC Archives, New York, collection AR 33/44 file 53 (the Jewish Community of Kobe's returns to the JDC, 1941; Set I, item 00761) — Set I pp. 24–32 — April 1941 (and a May continuation sheet)
  She left Yokohama on the Hikawa Maru on 17 April 1941, bound for the USA (the Jewish Community of Kobe's list of refugees who left Japan in April 1941 (JDC Archives, AR 33/44 file 53)). The list reads: "Stockhamer Chaja — Polish — Yokohama — Canada". (Hikawa Maru, Yokohama, 17 April 1941, the USA.)
• Manifest of alien passengers, SS Hikawa Maru, sailing from Kobe April 1941, arrived Seattle 28 Apr 1941 (US National Archives, M1383, roll 261; read on FamilySearch's copy)
  The National Archives' Seattle passenger list (FamilySearch's copy) shows Chaja Tauba Stochhamer, 53, born in Lemberg, landing at Seattle from Kobe on the Hikawa Maru on 28 April 1941 on a Lithuanian safe-conduct, bound for Vancouver, British Columbia. She gave Gdynia as her last home.
• A ship, arriving at Seattle in 1941: list or manifest of alien passengers, the sheet that names Chaja Tauba Stochhamer — US National Archives, Record Group 85 (Immigration and Naturalization Service), Passenger and Crew Lists of Vessels…
• Arriving at Seattle: the continuation sheet, with the relatives named and the destinations, for the sheet that names Chaja Szadba Sztokchamer — US National Archives, Record Group 85 (Immigration and Naturalization Service), Passenger and…

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