Rafal Kon

Visa no. 863 · Kaunas, 2 August 1940

Rafal Kon received transit visa no. 863 at the Japanese consulate in Kaunas on 2 August 1940. The register records engineer, aged 47.

Documents

Document — Rafal Kon — The Heian Maru, arriving at Seattle in 1941: list or manifest of alien passengers, the sheet that names Emanuel Distler — US National Archives, Record Group 85 (Immigration and Naturalization Service), Passenger and Crew Lists of Vessels Arriving at Seattle, microfilm publication M1383, roll 262, frame 96 of the file unit “June 2, 1941, SS Princess Marguerite-July 7, 1941, SS Hie Maru” (NAID 553889808). Public domain; credit: National Archives at Washington, DC.

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What the register records

Nationality as recorded: Polnisch
Age in 1940: 47
Occupation: Engineer

The journey

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

Where this comes from

"Washington, King, Seattle, Passenger Lists, 1890-1957", FamilySearch — index entry for Stanislaw Kon, 1941: born about 1893, 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 Stanislaw Kon, born about 1893 in Poland, arriving at Seattle in 1941. The register's compiled line gives 1893, 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 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 has Stanislaw Kon, born in 1892 at Piotrkow. Sugihara's ledger writes his given name Rafal; the list, like the compilers, has Stanislaw.
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 Heian Maru, arriving at Seattle in 1941: list or manifest of alien passengers, the sheet that names Emanuel Distler — US National Archives, Record Group 85 (Immigration and Naturalization Service), Passenger and Crew Lists of Vessels…
The Heian Maru, arriving at Seattle in 1941: the continuation sheet, with the relatives named and the destinations, for the sheet that names Norbert Henryk Gorwic — US National Archives, Record Group 85 (Immigration and Naturalization Se…

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