Marcel Landau received transit visa no. 911 at the Japanese consulate in Kaunas on 3 August 1940. The register records engineer, aged 22.
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.
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… 177, 23, Zurich, student, Polish; uncles Landau rua Fernando Mendes Rio de Janeiro, J.Rabinowicz POB 758 Haifa; cousin Oswald Landau 34 West 73 str New York
hunt/familysearch: 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
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
Polish Legation certificate for Marcel Landau, Kaunas, 3 January 1940 — front
The reverse: Sugihara's transit visa of 3 August 1940, Zwartendijk's Curaçao declaration No. 2005, and the NKVD and prefectural stamps of 1941
Kanagawa Prefecture police certificate, Yokohama, 26 May 1941 — identity and visa status