Piekarz Lejba

Piekarz Lejba received transit visa no. 1986 at the Japanese consulate in Kaunas on 20 August 1940. The register records tailor.

What the register records

Nationality as recorded

Polish

Occupation

Tailor

The journey

Reached Japan; registered in Kobe for Canada.

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…
  4332, Ostrow Maz., 1923
• US arrival manifest: Lejba Piekarz, Seattle, 1940
  "Seattle Passenger Lists", FamilySearch, entry for Lejba Piekarz, 1940. Ship: Heian Maru. Matched from the Heian Maru's Polish-born passenger list (198 people, of whom 57 matched the register). Register No.1986 'Piekarz Lejba' records age None; the manifest gives born 1893, arriving 1940. Con
• "Washington, King, Seattle, Passenger Lists, 1890-1957", FamilySearch — index entry for Lejba Piekarz, 1940: born about 1893, 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 Lejba Piekarz, born about 1893 in Poland, arriving at Seattle in 1940. The register has no age for the line. 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.