Jakow Chajan

Jakow Chajan received transit visa no. 930 at the Japanese consulate in Kaunas on 3 August 1940. The register records manufacturer, aged 42.

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What the register records

Nationality as recorded

Polnisch

Age in 1940

42

Occupation

Manufacturer

Family, per the Kitade-Bluman list

husband of #929

The journey

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

Where this comes from

• "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 2, read by the archive on 3 October 2026: Chazan, Jakob, 42, married, 'industrial' amended by hand to glass technician, a Polish national, born at Minsk; quota immigration visa No. 1030 issued at Yokohama on 27 May 1941; last residence Yokohama. His nearest relative in the country he left was his brother David Chazan at 62 Kitano-cho, Kobe. He was going to Brooklyn, to his brother-in-law Max Copulsky of 2137 East 36th Street, with $120, the passage paid by himself, never in the United States before. On the lines below him are his wife Sara (register No. 929), 43, born Grodno, and the children Tania, 18, and Salomon, 15, both born Grodno, on visas 1031, 1032 and 430 of the same day. The register's Jakow Chajan is matched to this line by his wife's name and birthplace on the register's own neighbouring line, the consecutive Yokohama visas and the route.
• 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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