Zielonka Ruchla

Visa no. 790 · Kaunas, 2 August 1940

Zielonka Ruchla received transit visa no. 790 at the Japanese consulate in Kaunas on 2 August 1940. Aged 31 in 1940.

Documents

Document — Zielonka Ruchla — The Passengers, arriving at Seattle in 1941: list or manifest of alien passengers, the sheet that names Chaskiel Taub — US National Archives, Record Group 85 (Immigration and Naturalization Service), Passenger and Crew Lists of Vessels Arriving at Seattle, microfilm publication M1383, roll 261, frame 675 of the file unit “Apr. 28, 1941, SS Hikawa Maru-June 27, 1941, SS Empire Cannery” (NAID 553888815). Public domain; credit: National Archives at Washington, DC.

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What the register records

Nationality as recorded: Polnisch
Age in 1940: 31
Family, per the Kitade-Bluman list: wife of #789

The journey

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

Where this comes from

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 196 of the Kobe Jewish Community's refugee register: aged 33, born at Bendzin.
M.S. Hie Maru, Kobe 4 May – Yokohama 7 May – Seattle 18 May 1941, sheet 6 of 11 — transcribed for the Immigrant Ships Transcribers Guild by David Rosen
Hie Maru passenger no. 131; 32y 4m; Housewife; b. Bedzin, Poland; last residence Sosnowiec, Poland; US visa Q.I.V.1304, issued Yokohama, 5-1-1941; to N.Y., N.Y.; joining Uncle, Max Jacoby, 64 Wooster St. N.Y.; nearest relative left behind: Father-in-law, Josek Zielonka, Sosnowiec Kowalska 2 Poland
"Washington, King, Seattle, Passenger Lists, 1890-1957", FamilySearch — index entry for Ruchla Zielonka, 1941: born about 1909, Poland. Digitised from NARA microfilm publication M1383 (passenger and crew lists of vessels arriving at Seat…
FamilySearch's index of the Seattle passenger lists, read by the archive on 20 September 2026, has Ruchla Zielonka, born about 1909 in Poland, arriving at Seattle in 1941. The register's compiled line gives 1909, 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.
The Passengers, arriving at Seattle in 1941: list or manifest of alien passengers, the sheet that names Chaskiel Taub — US National Archives, Record Group 85 (Immigration and Naturalization Service), Passenger and Crew Lists of Vessels A…
Arriving at Seattle: the continuation sheet, with the relatives named and the destinations, for the sheet that names Chaskiel Taub — US National Archives, Record Group 85 (Immigration and Naturalization Service), Passenger and Crew Lists…

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