Mosei Hufnagel

Mosei Hufnagel received transit visa no. 75 at the Japanese consulate in Kaunas on 29 July 1940. Aged 32 in 1940.

What the register records

Nationality as recorded

Polnisch

Age in 1940

32

Family, per the Kitade-Bluman list

wife (32)

The journey

Reached Japan.

Where this comes from

• California arriving passenger and crew lists, 1882–1959 (National Archives; indexed on Ancestry.com): the Ginyo Maru, Yokohama to San Pedro, Los Angeles, arrived 19 November 1940. Seen on Ancestry.com by David Rosen, who reported its pas…
  David Rosen reported a Moses Hufnagel among the passengers of the Ginyo Maru from Yokohama, which reached San Pedro, Los Angeles, on 19 November 1940 (his letter of 4 September 2026). The archive read the line itself on 3 October 2026; the reading is the entry below.
• "California, Los Angeles, Passenger Lists, 1907-1948", FamilySearch — the Ginyo Maru, Yokohama to San Pedro, 20 November 1940, transit passengers (NARA A3385 roll 27), image 491
  The Ginyo Maru's transit list, Yokohama to San Pedro (Los Angeles), stamped 'departed 20 November 1940', read by the archive on 3 October 2026 after David Rosen's report: Hufnagal, Mojzesz, 32, married, a lawyer, reading English, a Polish national, born at Krakow, with no United States visa, last residence Krakow; the whole sheet is marked 'in transit for Balboa, Canal Zone'. The register's Mosei Hufnagel, Polish, 32 on the compiled list, is the only Hufnagel on the register, and a Yokohama sailing in November 1940 follows a visa of 29 July 1940. The compiled list's wife of 32 is not on the sheet. FamilySearch's index gives him as born about 1908.
• "California, World War II Draft Registration Cards, 1940-1947", FamilySearch — Mojzesz Hirsz Hufnagel, Los Angeles, 29 June 1945, born 6 October 1908 at Warsaw
  A Los Angeles draft registration card of 29 June 1945 for Mojzesz Hirsz Hufnagel, born 6 October 1908 at Warsaw, self-employed, with a Liliana Hufnagel in his household; FamilySearch also links records of his under Colombia, New York and El Paso. The name and birth year match the Ginyo Maru passenger of 1940, but the card gives Warsaw where the manifest gives Krakow, so this is a lead on his later life and not a settled identification.
• Manifest of alien passengers in transit, SS Ginyo Maru, sailing from Yokohama 24 October 1940, at San Pedro (Los Angeles) November 1940 (NARA A3385, lists of passengers arriving at San Pedro/Los Angeles in transit, roll 27; read on Famil…
  The Ginyo Maru sailed from Yokohama on 24 October 1940 with a handful of Polish passengers holding no American visas, bound beyond the United States: the inspector at Honolulu ordered them kept on board on 7 November, shore leave was refused at San Pedro, and the ship left San Pedro on 20 November 1940 with them. Its manifest has Liliana Hufnagel, aged 32, married, a housewife, Polish, born at Kaunas, last residence Vilnius. The register's line for Mosei Hufnagel records a wife of 32 travelling with him, and no other Hufnagel wife of that age; he is not on this page of the manifest, and may be on another.

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