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Schneider, Zlota

File Number: 16636/31-16
Name: Schneider, Zlota
Sex: F
Place of birth: Russia
Date of birth: 1894
Date of arrival: 10/31/1917
Name of ship: Korea Maru
Days in Detention: 3 months
Notes: Excluded as LPC and illiterate; Dressmaker; From Trepnick, Badolski to Harbin to Yokohama; Ran out of money; Housing and passage paid by HIAS in Yokohama; Uncle in Philadelphia sent for her; HIAS appeals 11/20/17; Case reopened 12/6/17; She lied about her marital status because she would have hard time getting passport without mnarriage license; Admitted under bond 2/4/18 for duration of war; Bond cancelled and landed when marriage confirmed 2/19/20.