Federman Rafal

Federman Rafal received transit visa no. 2000 at the Japanese consulate in Kaunas on 20 August 1940. The register records clerk, aged 48.

What the register records

Nationality as recorded

Polish

Age in 1940

48

Occupation

Clerk

Family, per the Kitade-Bluman list

husband of #1999

The journey

Reached Japan; registered in Kobe for USA.

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…
  1369, Czestochowa, 1692, from Czestochowa
• US arrival manifest: Chana Federman, Seattle, 1940
  "Seattle Passenger Lists", FamilySearch, entry for Rafal Federman, 1940. Ship: Heian Maru. Matched from the Heian Maru's Polish-born passenger list (198 people, of whom 57 matched the register). Register No.2000 'Federman afal' records age 48; the manifest gives born 1892, arriving 1940. Conf
• "Washington, King, Seattle, Passenger Lists, 1890-1957", FamilySearch — index entry for Rafal Federman, 1940: born about 1892, Poland. Digitised from NARA microfilm publication M1383 (passenger and crew lists of vessels arriving at Seatt…
  FamilySearch's index of the Seattle passenger lists, read by the archive on 20 September 2026, has Rafal Federman, born about 1892 in Poland, arriving at Seattle in 1940. The register's compiled line gives 1892, 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.