Donski Ichok

Donski Ichok received transit visa no. 1416 at the Japanese consulate in Kaunas on 7 August 1940. The register records merchant, aged 37.

What the register records

Nationality as recorded

Polnisch

Age in 1940

37

Occupation

Merchant

The journey

Reached Japan.

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…
  7799, Cosnovviec, b.1903, from Sosnowiec
• US arrival manifest: Icchok Donski, Seattle, 1940
  "Seattle Passenger Lists", FamilySearch, entry for Icchok Donski, 1940. Ship: Heian Maru. Matched from the Heian Maru's Polish-born passenger list (198 people, of whom 57 matched the register). Register No.1416 'Donski Ichok' records age 37; the manifest gives born 1903, arriving 1940. Confid
• "Washington, King, Seattle, Passenger Lists, 1890-1957", FamilySearch — index entry for Icchok Donski, 1940: born about 1903, Poland. Digitised from NARA microfilm publication M1383 (passenger and crew lists of vessels arriving at Seattl…
  FamilySearch's index of the Seattle passenger lists, read by the archive on 20 September 2026, has Icchok Donski, born about 1903 in Poland, arriving at Seattle in 1940. The register's compiled line gives 1903, and the two agree. The name occurs once on the register, and a Polish-born passenger landing at Seattle in 1940 fits the route through Japan, so the entry is taken as this person's under the archive's rule of 19 September 2026 for records from the route.