Sara Chazan

Sara Chazan received transit visa no. 929 at the Japanese consulate in Kaunas on 3 August 1940. Aged 43 in 1940.

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What the register records

Nationality as recorded

Polnisch

Age in 1940

43

Family, per the Kitade-Bluman list

wife of #930, daughter Tania (17), son Salomon (15)

The journey

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

Travelled with, and never given a number

• Tania Chazan — daughter, aged 17, born Grodno, 1923
• Salomon Chazan — son, aged 14, though the ledger says 15, born Grodno, 1926

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 773, Sara Chazan, born 1897 at Grodno, who came from Kraków; the year agrees with the register's compiled age, and her husband Jakub Chazan, born 1898 at Grodno, stands beside her on the list as he does on the register (No. 930).
• 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 219 of the Kobe community's list of refugees and their relatives abroad: aged 1, born at Vilnius (Vilno), Polish.
• US arrival manifest: Sara Chazan, Seattle, 1941
  FamilySearch's index of the Seattle passenger lists has Sara Chazan arriving in 1941 on the Hikawa Maru, born about 1898; the register's compiled line gives 43 in 1940. The sheet itself was read on 3 October 2026 and is the entry under the Hikawa Maru of 16 June 1941.
• "Washington, King, Seattle, Passenger Lists, 1890-1957", FamilySearch — index entry for Sara Chazan, 1941: born about 1898, Poland. Digitised from NARA microfilm publication M1383 (passenger and crew lists of vessels arriving at Seattle)…
  FamilySearch's index of the Seattle passenger lists, read by the archive on 20 September 2026, has Sara Chazan, born about 1898 in Poland, arriving at Seattle in 1941. The register's compiled line gives 1897, 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.
• "Washington, King, Seattle, Passenger Lists, 1890-1957", FamilyS… — the Hikawa Maru, Yokohama 5 June to Seattle 16 June 1941, sheet 9 (NARA M1383 roll 262): the Chazan family, lines 2–5, and the continuation sheet with the relatives named
  The Hikawa Maru's manifest, Yokohama 5 June to Seattle 16 June 1941, sheet 9, line 3, read by the archive on 3 October 2026: Chazan, Sara, 43 (the typed 48 corrected on the sheet), married, housewife, born Grodno, quota immigration visa No. 1031 issued at Yokohama on 27 May 1941, travelling with her husband Jakob (register No. 930) and the children Tania, 18, and Salomon, 15, to Brooklyn, to her brother Max Copulsky. The JDC's Vilna list of 1940 gives her birth as Grodno, 1897, and the manifest agrees.
• The Hikawa Maru, Yokohama to Seattle, arrived 16 June 1941: list or manifest of alien passengers, sheet 9 (the Chazan family on lines 2 to 5) — US National Archives, Record Group 85 (Immigration and Naturalization Service), Passenger and…
• The Hikawa Maru, Yokohama to Seattle, arrived 16 June 1941: the continuation sheet for sheet 9, with the relatives named (the Chazans on lines 2 to 5, to Brooklyn) — US National Archives, Record Group 85 (Immigration and Naturalization S…

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