Ignacy Weyland received transit visa no. 998 at the Japanese consulate in Kaunas on 3 August 1940. The register records factory owner, aged 51.
What the register records
Nationality as recorded
Polnisch
Age in 1940
51
Occupation
Factory Owner
Family, per the Kitade-Bluman list
wife Estera (40), son Marcel (13)
The journey
Reached Japan; reached Shanghai; registered in Kobe for Australia.
Travelled with, and never given a number
Estera — wife, aged 40
Marcel — son, aged 13
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
Prof. Andrew Jakubowicz (University of Technology Sydney), email of 11 August 2026 to the archive, introduced by Arlette Liwer-Stuip — four answers: (1) Josef Kamieniecki's Curaçao sheet may be used, authorised by his son Michael Kamm; J… Andrew Jakubowicz (email of 11 Aug 2026) believes Ignacy Weyland was Michal Weyland's brother (No. 861, the family of Marcel Weyland) and ended in Palestine — a family lead, not a documented fate. Checked: the Romer papers' Palestine-certificate memoranda (reel C-10451 fr. 930/936) carry no names; no Palestine document for him is held yet