Ignacy Weyland

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 Kamien… — a belief he withdrew in his letters of 28 August and 2 September 2026
  On 11 August 2026 Andrew Jakubowicz wrote that he believed Ignacy Weyland was a brother of Michał Weyland (No. 861) and had ended in Palestine. He withdrew that on 28 August and 2 September 2026: Ignacy and Michał are two different people, and whether Ignacy went to Palestine he does not know. No document places Ignacy Weyland in Palestine; the Romer papers' Palestine-certificate memoranda (reel C-10451, frames 930 and 936) carry no names. Amended 15 September 2026; this note previously said, in his name, that Ignacy Weyland was Michał Weyland's brother and ended in Palestine.
• Letter from Prof. Andrew Jakubowicz (University of Technology Sydney), 28 August 2026, with three screenshots of the 1940 Vilna refugee list: the Wajland household at lines 6128–6132 (Icek Dawid, Sura, Michał born Zgierz 1889, Estera bor…
  He states that Ignacy and Michał Weyland (No. 861) are two different people and that he does not know whether Ignacy went to Palestine, withdrawing his belief of 11 August; he offers, as a hypothesis only, that line 7736 of the Vilna list (Izaak Wejland, born Zgierz 1888) may be this man under his Jewish name — see the open question on this entry.
• Letter from Prof. Andrew Jakubowicz, 2 September 2026, written from New Caledonia to Chaim Jaskoll and Arlette Liwer-Stuip: the two differently spelled Weylands of Zgierz are likely brothers or cousins, the spellings varying because Tsar…
  Whether the Ignacy/Izaak household used its visas he does not know; he will check the Joint's Japan files on his return. Nothing about what became of them is recorded here.

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