Wiktor Rajzman

Wiktor Rajzman received transit visa no. 783 at the Japanese consulate in Kaunas on 2 August 1940. The register records engineer, aged 26.

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What the register records

Nationality as recorded

Polnisch

Age in 1940

26

Occupation

Engineer

The journey

Reached Japan; aided by the Polish ambassador Tadeusz Romer; registered in Kobe for Canada.

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 4836, Wiktor Rajzman, born 1914 at Kolce, who had come from Warsaw; the year agrees with the register's age.
• The Kobe relatives list — refugees at Kobe in 1941 recorded with their relatives abroad. Seventy-six pages in numbered sheets (LIST No. 7, No. 16 and others), each line giving a name, age, birthplace, occupation and citizenship, and then…
  The Kobe community's list of refugees and their relatives abroad: born 1914 at Kielce; relatives abroad: a cousin, Hausen Buchner, 12545 Gratiet, Detroit, Michigan; a cousin, Professor Fodor, Hebrew University, Jerusalem.
• The JEWCOM register — the refugee register kept by the Refugee Committee of the Jewish Community of Kobe (Ashkenazim) at No. 6 Yamamoto-dori, 1-chome, whose cable address was 'JEWCOM Kobe'. Eighty-four pages on the committee's own printe…
  Entry 550 of the Kobe Jewish Community's refugee register: aged 27, born at Kielce, an engineer, who arrived in Japan from Vilnius on 13 February 1941.
• US arrival manifest: Wiktor Rajzman, Seattle, 1941
  "Seattle Passenger Lists", FamilySearch, entry for Wiktor Rajzman, 1941. Ship: Hikawa Maru. Matched from the Hikawa Maru's Polish-born passenger list (162 people, 35 matched). Register No.783 'iktor ajzman' records age 26; the manifest gives born 1914, arriving 1941.
• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, Holocaust Survivors and Victims Database — the Flight and Rescue electronic dataset (source 20725): USHMM's own transcription of the Kaunas register, 2,140 persons with citizenship, visa type, iss…
  USHMM Flight and Rescue dataset: arrived in Japan 13 Feb 1941 (line 783)
• "Washington, King, Seattle, Passenger Lists, 1890-1957", FamilySearch — index entry for Wiktor Rajzman, 1941: born about 1914, Poland. Digitised from NARA microfilm publication M1383 (passenger and crew lists of vessels arriving at Seatt…
  FamilySearch's index of the Seattle passenger lists, read by the archive on 20 September 2026, has Wiktor Rajzman, born about 1914 in Poland, arriving at Seattle in 1941. The register's compiled line gives 1914, and the two agree. The name occurs once on the register, and a Polish-born passenger landing at Seattle in 1941 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.
• JDC Archives, New York, collection AR 33/44 file 53 (the Jewish Community of Ko… — "List of departures for the month of June, 1941" (Jewish Community of Kobe, Migration Office; covering letter p. 12, Kobe, July 1941, HICEM-funded tickets)
  He left Yokohama on the Hikawa Maru on 5 June 1941, bound for Vancouver (the Jewish Community of Kobe's list of departures, June 1941 (JDC Archives, AR 33/44 file 53)). The list reads: Hikawa Maru sheet: "Rajzman Wiktor — 1". (Hikawa Maru, Yokohama, 5 June 1941, Vancouver.)
• The Hikawa Maru, arriving at Seattle in 1941: list or manifest of alien passengers, the sheet that names Mojsze Szymkiewicz — US National Archives, Record Group 85 (Immigration and Naturalization Service), Passenger and Crew Lists of Ves…
• Arriving at Seattle: the continuation sheet, with the relatives named and the destinations, for the sheet that names Mojsze Szymkiewicz — US National Archives, Record Group 85 (Immigration and Naturalization Service), Passenger and Crew…

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