Josef Ingster

Josef Ingster received transit visa no. 910 at the Japanese consulate in Kaunas on 3 August 1940. The register records wool merchant, aged 48.

What the register records

Nationality as recorded

Polnisch

Age in 1940

48

Occupation

Wool Merchant

Family, per the Kitade-Bluman list

father IL of #911

The journey

Reached Japan; registered in Kobe for Canada.

Where this comes from

• List of Refugees, Vilna, 1940 — JDC Archives, New York, collection AR 33/44, file 00876. The contemporary register of Polish Jewish refugees in Lithuania, running to more than nine thousand numbered entries; the fullest independent check…
  2434; Bedzin; 1892; from Lodz
• 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…
  123, 49, Bedzin, merchant; cousin Julian Tuwim Polish consulate Rio de Janeiro, cousin Marchow Hevri Hedigstr Zurich
• hunt/familysearch: US arrival manifest: Jozef Ingster, Seattle, 1941
  "Seattle Passenger Lists", FamilySearch, entry for Jozef Ingster, 1941. Ship: Heian Maru. Matched from the Heian Maru's Polish-born passenger list (198 people, of whom 57 matched the register). Register No.910 'Josef Ingster' records age 48; the manifest gives born 1892, arriving 1941. Confid