Karlinski Kielman

Karlinski Kielman received transit visa no. 831 at the Japanese consulate in Kaunas on 2 August 1940. The register records journalist, aged 39.

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What the register records

Nationality as recorded

Polnisch

Age in 1940

39

Occupation

Journalist

The journey

Reached Japan; registered in Kobe for Canada.

Where this comes from

• 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…
  Entry 133 of the Kobe community's list of refugees and their relatives abroad: born 1901 at Kolno, Polish; relatives abroad: a father-in-law, N. Karelensztejn, 10 Herkimer Street, Brooklyn, New York.
• 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…
  The Kobe Jewish Community's refugee register: aged 40, born at Kolno, a journalist, who arrived in Japan on 3 February 1941.
• US arrival manifest: Kielman Karlinski, Seattle, 1941
  "Seattle Passenger Lists", FamilySearch, entry for Kielman Karlinski, 1941. Ship: Hie Maru. Matched from the Hie Maru's Polish-born passenger list (87 people). Register No.831 'Karlinski Kielman' records age 39; the manifest gives born 1901, arriving 1941.
• List or Manifest of Alien Passengers for the United States - M.S. Hie Maru, which sailed from Kobe on 23 June and from Yokohama on 26 June 1941 and reached Seattle on 7 Jul… — the sheet David Rosen pointed the archive to on 30 August 2026
  Line 30, the last line of the sheet. KARLINSKI, KIELMAN, 40, male, married, journalist; Polish nationality, Hebrew; born at Kolno, last permanent residence Bialystok. His nearest relative is his wife, Chaja Karlinska of Nowy Swiat 6, Bialystok; his final destination is entered as going to Canada, and in Canada he was to be met care of the Polish consulate at Vancouver. The register has him as Karlinski, Zelman or Kalman, 39, a journalist, going to Canada. The trade agrees exactly, the age is one year on, the destination agrees, and the manifest supplies a third form of the given name, Kielman, alongside the two the register already held. Detained on board at Seattle on 7 July 1941 and identified the next day.
• Sefer zikaron le-kehilat Kolno (the Kolno memorial book), ed. Aizik Remba and Benjamin Halevy, Tel Aviv, 1971 — the JewishGen Yizkor Book Project's table of contents
  Kalman Karlinski wrote the history of his town's Jewish community, 'The Story of the Kolno Community', for the Kolno memorial book published in Tel Aviv in 1971, and with Hershel Karlinski the chapter on the Kolno people in the United States. Whether the author is the man on this register line is not confirmed: the memorial book gives only the name.
• The numbered Sugihara visa list, the page of 2 August 1940 carrying Nos. 795 to 865 (among them No. 805, Szaps Jaskolka), photographed beside a ruler.
• The Hie Maru, arriving at Seattle in 1941: list or manifest of alien passengers, the sheet that names Kielman Karlinski — 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 Karlinski Zelman — US National Archives, Record Group 85 (Immigration and Naturalization Service), Passenger and Crew Li…

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