Cyla Dworecka

Cyla Dworecka received transit visa no. 854 at the Japanese consulate in Kaunas on 2 August 1940. Aged 21 in 1940.

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What the register records

Nationality as recorded

Polnisch

Age in 1940

21

Family, per the Kitade-Bluman list

daughter of #851

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 34 of the Kobe Jewish Community's refugee register: aged 21.
• 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 25 Jan 1941 (line 854)
• "Washington, King, Seattle, Passenger Lists, 1890-1957", FamilySearch — index entry for Cyla Dworecka, 1941: born about 1920, Poland. Digitised from NARA microfilm publication M1383 (passenger and crew lists of vessels arriving at Seattl…
  FamilySearch's index of the Seattle passenger lists, read by the archive on 20 September 2026, has Cyla Dworecka, born about 1920 in Poland, arriving at Seattle in 1941. The register's compiled line gives 1919, and the two are 1 year apart. 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.
• Manifest of alien passengers, SS Heian Maru, sailing from Yokohama April 1941 (day not legible), arrived Seattle April 1941 (stamp read as 18 Apr 1941, uncertain) (US National Archives, M1383, roll 260; read on FamilySearch's copy)
  The National Archives' Seattle passenger list (FamilySearch's copy) shows Cyla Dworecka, 21, born in Lida, landing at Seattle from Yokohama on the Heian Maru in April 1941 with an American quota visa issued in Tokyo on 2 April. A note on the list says her parents were entered on another sheet of the same manifest; the family was going to an uncle, J. Dworecki, in Brooklyn.
• 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.
• A ship, arriving at Seattle in 1941: list or manifest of alien passengers, the sheet that names Cyla Dworecka — US National Archives, Record Group 85 (Immigration and Naturalization Service), Passenger and Crew Lists of Vessels Arriving…
• The PASSENGERS, arriving at Seattle in 1941: the continuation sheet, with the relatives named and the destinations, for the sheet that names Cyla Dworecka — US National Archives, Record Group 85 (Immigration and Naturalization Service),…

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