Zelman Lichtenstein received transit visa no. 99 at the Japanese consulate in Kaunas on 29 July 1940. The register records clerk, aged 36.
What the register records
Nationality as recorded
Polnisch
Age in 1940
36
Occupation
Clerk
Family, per the Kitade-Bluman list
wife Roza (41), child Natalia (7)
The journey
Reached Japan; registered in Kobe for Canada and then USA.
Travelled with, and never given a number
Roza — wife, aged 41
Natalia — child, aged 7
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
hunt/familysearch: US arrival manifest: Zelman Josef Lichtenstein, Seattle, 1940 "Seattle Passenger Lists", FamilySearch, entry for Zelman Josef Lichtenstein, 1940. Ship: Heian Maru. Matched from the Heian Maru's Polish-born passenger list (198 people, of whom 57 matched the register). Register No.99 'Zelman Lichtenstein' records age 36; the manifest gives born 1904, arri