Siew Samuel (Dr.)

Siew Samuel (Dr.) received transit visa no. 891 at the Japanese consulate in Kaunas on 2 August 1940. The register records physician, aged 44.

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What the register records

Nationality as recorded

Polnisch

Age in 1940

44

Occupation

Physician

Family, per the Kitade-Bluman list

wife Hanna (37), son Robert (14)

The journey

Reached Japan; reached Shanghai; registered in Kobe for USA.

Travelled with, and never given a number

• Hanna — wife, aged 37
• Robert — son, aged 14

The register recorded visa holders. It did not reliably record the wives and children who travelled on somebody else’s visa, so these people have no entry of their own and cannot be searched for. Where the archive has recovered a name, it is here.

Where this comes from

• M.S. Hie Maru, Kobe 4 May – Yokohama 7 May – Seattle 18 May 1941, sheet 2 of 11 — transcribed for the Immigrant Ships Transcribers Guild by David Rosen
  Hie Maru passenger no. 41; Physian; b. Rusne, Lithuania; last residence Siauliai, Lithuania; US visa Q.I.V.368, issued Yokohama, 5-1-1941; to Baltimore, Md.; joining Aunt, Amalie, 951 Brooks Lane Baltimore, MD.; nearest relative left behind: Father, Wolf Siev, Varpog 34 Siauliai Lithuania
• M.S. Hie Maru, Kobe 4 May – Yokohama 7 May – Seattle 18 May 1941, sheet 2 of 11 — transcribed for the Immigrant Ships Transcribers Guild by David Rosen
  Hie Maru passenger no. 42; Housewife; b. Klaipeda, Lithuania; last residence Siauliai, Lithuania; US visa Q.I.V.369, issued Yokohama, 5-1-1941; to Baltimore, Md.; joining Aunt-in-law, Amalie, 951 Brooks Lane Baltimore, MD.; nearest relative left behind: Father-in-law, Wolf Siev, Varpog 34 Siauliai Lithuania; wife of No. 891; not separately on the register
• M.S. Hie Maru, Kobe 4 May – Yokohama 7 May – Seattle 18 May 1941, sheet 2 of 11 — transcribed for the Immigrant Ships Transcribers Guild by David Rosen
  Hie Maru passenger no. 43; Student; b. Berlin, Germany; last residence Siauliai, Lithuania; US visa Q.I.V.370, issued Yokohama, 5-1-1941; to Baltimore, Md.; joining Grandmothrer, Amalie, 951 Brooks Lane Baltimore, MD.; nearest relative left behind: Grandfather, Wolf Siev, Varpog 34 Siauliai Lithuania; son of No. 891; not separately on the register
• Prof. Dr Ruth Leiserowitz (Berlin), correspondence of 20 August… — research notes on six lines of the register, drawn from Lithuanian, German and United States records. What she found for each person is set out on that person's own entry.
  Prof. Leiserowitz records a fourth member of the household travelling with the family: Hanna's mother, Pauline Waller née Lewin, born 25 October 1879. The ship's list that carried the family to Seattle enters Hanna's own name as Hanna Waller, which is her mother's surname. The consular ledger's family note names only the wife and the son, and the archive has not yet found Pauline on the passenger list, so she is recorded here as a person to be looked for rather than a person accounted for.
• Prof. Dr Ruth Leiserowitz (Berlin), correspondence of 20 August… — research notes on six lines of the register, drawn from Lithuanian, German and United States records. What she found for each person is set out on that person's own entry.
  The register enters this family as Polish. Prof. Leiserowitz records them as German citizens, and the passenger list agrees with her: Dr Siew was born at Rusne and his wife at Klaipeda, both in the Memel territory that was German until 1939, and their son Robert was born in Berlin.
• "Washington, King, Seattle, Passenger Lists, 1890-1957", FamilySearch — index entry for Samuel Siev, 1941: born about 1897, Lithuania. 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 Samuel Siev, born about 1897 in Lithuania, arriving at Seattle in 1941. The register's compiled line gives 1896, and the two are 1 year apart. The name occurs once on the register, and a passenger born in Lithuania 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 Kobe's returns to the JDC, 1941; Set I, item 00761) — Set… — "List of refugees who left Japan to places other than Shanghai in the month of May 1941", Nos. 1–321
  He left Yokohama on the Hie Maru on 7 May 1941, bound for the USA (the Jewish Community of Kobe's list of departures, May 1941 (JDC Archives, AR 33/44 file 53)). The list reads: No. 53–55, 57: "Dr. Siev Samuel, ″ Hanna, ″ Robert (German); two lines on, Waller Pauline". (Hie Maru, Yokohama, 7 May 1941.)
• The 1950 United States census (US National Archives, 1950census.archives.gov)
  In April 1950 the United States census found him in Queens, New York, aged 53, a doctor in his own practice, with his wife Hanna, their son and Hanna's mother Pauline Waller (National Archives, 1950 census, enumeration district 41-1561, sheet 7).
• Prof. Dr Ruth Leiserowitz (Berlin), correspondence of August 2026 — kinship and family connections among the visa holders, drawn from the Lithuanian records. What she established for each person is set out on that person's own entry. The…
• Prof. Dr Ruth Leiserowitz (Berlin), correspondence of 20 August… — research notes on six lines of the register, drawn from Lithuanian, German and United States records. What she found for each person is set out on that person's own entry.
• A ship, arriving at Seattle in 1941: list or manifest of alien passengers, the sheet that names Samuel Siev — US National Archives, Record Group 85 (Immigration and Naturalization Service), Passenger and Crew Lists of Vessels Arriving at…
• Arriving at Seattle: the continuation sheet, with the relatives named and the destinations, for the sheet that names Siew Samuel (Dr.) — US National Archives, Record Group 85 (Immigration and Naturalization Service), Passenger and Crew L…

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