Sara Chazan

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

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 — daughter, aged 17
• Salomon — son, aged 15

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…
  773; b.Srodno 1897
• 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…
  219, 1, Vilno, Polish
• hunt/familysearch: US arrival manifest: Sara Chazan, Seattle, 1941
  "Seattle Passenger Lists", FamilySearch, entry for Sara Chazan, 1941. Ship: Hikawa Maru. Matched from the Hikawa Maru's Polish-born passenger list (162 people, 35 matched). Register No.929 'ara Chajan' records age 43; the manifest gives born 1898, arriving 1941.