Chaimas Chaimsonas

Chaimas Chaimsonas received transit visa no. 901 at the Japanese consulate in Kaunas on 3 August 1940. The register records student, aged 19.

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What the register records

Nationality as recorded

Lithuanien

Age in 1940

19

Occupation

Student

The journey

Reached Japan; registered in Kobe for USA.

Where this comes from

• US arrival manifest: Chaimas Chaimsonas, Seattle, 1940
  "Seattle Passenger Lists", FamilySearch, entry for Chaimas Chaimsonas, 1940. Ship: Hie Maru. Matched from the Hie Maru's LITHUANIAN-born passenger list. Register No.901 'Chaimas Chaimsonas' records age 19; the manifest gives born 1921, arriving 1940.
• "Washington, King, Seattle, Passenger Lists, 1890-1957", FamilySearch — index entry for Chaimas Chaimsonas, 1940: born about 1921, Lithuania. Digitised from NARA microfilm publication M1383 (passenger and crew lists of vessels arriving a…
  FamilySearch's index of the Seattle passenger lists, read by the archive on 20 September 2026, has Chaimas Chaimsonas, born about 1921 in Lithuania, arriving at Seattle in 1940. The register's compiled line gives 1921, and the two agree. The name occurs once on the register, and a passenger born in Lithuania landing at Seattle in 1940 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 Hie Maru, arriving at Seattle in 1940: list or manifest of alien passengers, the sheet that names Chaimas Chaimsonas — US National Archives, Record Group 85 (Immigration and Naturalization Service), Passenger and Crew Lists of Vessel…
• The Hie Maru, arriving at Seattle in 1940: the continuation sheet, with the relatives named and the destinations, for the sheet that names Chaimas Chaimsonas — US National Archives, Record Group 85 (Immigration and Naturalization Service…

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