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.

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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…
  The 1940 Vilna refugee list has, at entry 2434, Józef Ingster, born 1892 at Będzin, who came from Łódź; the year agrees with the register's compiled age, and the town with what the archive already holds for this line.
• 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…
  Entry 123 of the Kobe community's list of refugees and their relatives abroad: aged 49, born at Bedzin, a merchant; relatives abroad: a cousin, Julian Tuwim, Polish consulate, Rio de Janeiro; a cousin, Marchow, Hevri Hedigstr, Zurich.
• 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
• "Washington, King, Seattle, Passenger Lists, 1890-1957", FamilySearch — index entry for Jozef Ingster, 1941: born about 1892, 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 Jozef Ingster, born about 1892 in Poland, arriving at Seattle in 1941. The register's compiled line gives 1892, 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.
• 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 Heian Maru on 27 May 1941, bound for Canada (the Jewish Community of Kobe's list of departures, May 1941 (JDC Archives, AR 33/44 file 53)). The list reads: "Ingster Josef". (Heian Maru, Yokohama, 27 May 1941.)
• The Heian Maru, arriving at Seattle in 1941: list or manifest of alien passengers, the sheet that names Romana Bronowski — US National Archives, Record Group 85 (Immigration and Naturalization Service), Passenger and Crew Lists of Vessel…
• Arriving at Seattle: the continuation sheet, with the relatives named and the destinations, for the sheet that names Romana Bronowski — US National Archives, Record Group 85 (Immigration and Naturalization Service), Passenger and Crew Li…

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