Vodniak, Ionia
File Number: 16742/18-3Name: Vodniak, Ionia
Sex: M
Place of birth: Russia
Date of birth: 1900
Date of arrival: 12/08/1917
Name of ship: Nippon Maru
Days in Detention: 2 weeks
Notes: Clerk; Literate; Passage paid by HIAS of Yokohama; No money and no passport but presented a document bearing the seal of the Russian Consulate at Yokohama; Traveled with younger brother (Abraham Vodniak), who claimed to be 11 instead of 15 to get half fare, to join father (Ishiker Vodniak) in New Jersey; Two brothers in US; Mother, two brothers, and sister waiting in Yokohama; is charged from military service; father (tailor) interviewed in Philadelphia office; family in Yokohama for 2 weeks.