Rapoport Izrael

Rapoport Izrael received transit visa no. 1528 at the Japanese consulate in Kaunas on 7 August 1940. The register records fur merchant, aged 36.

What the register records

Nationality as recorded

Polnisch

Age in 1940

36

Occupation

Fur Merchant

Family, per the Kitade-Bluman list

husband of #1530, son Janusz (10)

The journey

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

Travelled with, and never given a number

• Janusz — son, aged 10

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

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, Holocaust Survivors and Victims Database — the Flight and Rescue electronic dataset (source 20725): USHMM's own transcription of the Kaunas register, 2,140 persons with citizenship, visa type, iss…
  USHMM Flight and Rescue dataset: arrived in Japan 14 Feb 1941 (line 1528)
• M.S. Hie Maru, Kobe 4 May – Yokohama 7 May – Seattle 18 May 1941, sheet 2 of 11 — transcribed for the Immigrant Ships Transcribers Guild by David Rosen
  Hie Maru passenger no. 38; 37y 4m; Fur Merchant; b. Warsaw, Poland; last residence Vilnus, Lithuania; US visa Q.I.V.1840, issued Yokohama, 5-2-1941; to N.Y., N.Y.; joining Uncle, Samuel Finkielstein, 91 Payson Ave. N.Y.; nearest relative left behind: No relative, 8 Tilto, Vilnus
• "Washington, King, Seattle, Passenger Lists, 1890-1957", FamilySearch — index entry for Izrael Rapoport, 1941: born about 1904, Poland. Digitised from NARA microfilm publication M1383 (passenger and crew lists of vessels arriving at Seat…
  FamilySearch's index of the Seattle passenger lists, read by the archive on 20 September 2026, has Izrael Rapoport, born about 1904 in Poland, arriving at Seattle in 1941. The register's compiled line gives 1904, and the two agree. The name occurs once on the register, and a Polish-born passenger landing at Seattle in 1941 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.