Siew Samuel (Dr.) received transit visa no. 891 at the Japanese consulate in Kaunas on 2 August 1940. The register records physician, aged 44.
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 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
Prof. Dr Ruth Leiserowitz (Berlin), correspondence of 20 August 2026 — 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 e… 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 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…