Marcel Landau

Marcel Landau received transit visa no. 911 at the Japanese consulate in Kaunas on 3 August 1940. The register records engineer, aged 22.

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What the register records

Nationality as recorded

Polnisch

Age in 1940

22

Occupation

Engineer

Family, per the Kitade-Bluman list

son IL of #910, wife Danuta (20)

The journey

Reached Japan; aided by the Polish ambassador Tadeusz Romer; registered in Kobe for Canada.

Travelled with, and never given a number

• Danuta — wife, aged 20

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

• 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 3572, Marcelli Landau, born 1918, who had come from Łódź; the year agrees with the register's age.
• 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 177 of the Kobe community's list of refugees and their relatives abroad: aged 23, born at Zurich, a student, Polish; relatives abroad: uncles, Landau, Rua Fernando Mendes, Rio de Janeiro, and J. Rabinowicz, post office box 758, Haifa; a cousin, Oswald Landau, 34 West 73rd Street, New York.
• US arrival manifest: Marcel Landau, Seattle, 1941
  "Seattle Passenger Lists", FamilySearch, entry for Marcel Landau, 1941. Ship: Heian Maru. Matched from the Heian Maru's Polish-born passenger list (198 people, of whom 57 matched the register). Register No.911 'Marsel Landau' records age 22; the manifest gives born 1919, arriving 1941. Confid
• "Washington, King, Seattle, Passenger Lists, 1890-1957", FamilySearch — index entry for Marcel Landau, 1941: born about 1919, 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 Marcel Landau, born about 1919 in Poland, arriving at Seattle in 1941. The register's compiled line gives 1918, and the two are 1 year apart. 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: "Landau Marcel, ″ Danuta". (Heian Maru, Yokohama, 27 May 1941.)
• A Facebook genealogy group posting of the Sugihara visa of Marcel Landau — Zwartendijk No.2005 + Sugihara visa 3 Aug 1940; crossed USSR by train to Vladivostok, boat to Japan Mar 1941, then Canada
• 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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