Chaja Lewinsztejn

Chaja Lewinsztejn received transit visa no. 1192 at the Japanese consulate in Kaunas on 5 August 1940. Aged 53 in 1940.

What the register records

Nationality as recorded

Polnisch

Age in 1940

53

Family, per the Kitade-Bluman list

wife of #1165

The journey

Reached Japan; reached Shanghai; registered in Kobe for USA.

Where this comes from

• The JEWCOM register — the refugee register kept by the Refugee Committee of the Jewish Community of Kobe (Ashkenazim) at No. 6 Yamamoto-dori, 1-chome, whose cable address was 'JEWCOM Kobe'. Eighty-four pages on the committee's own printe…
  Entry 418 of the Kobe Jewish Community's refugee register: aged 55, who travelled from Kaunas.
• 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 25 Feb 1941 (line 1192)
• "California, San Francisco, Passenger Lists, 1893-1953", FamilySearch — index entry for Chaja Lewinsztejn, 1947: born about 1887, Poland. Digitised from NARA microfilm publication M1410 (passenger lists of vessels arriving at San Francis…
  FamilySearch's index of the San Francisco passenger lists, read by the archive on 20 September 2026, has Chaja Lewinsztejn, born about 1887 in Poland, arriving at San Francisco in 1947 on the General M. C. Meigs. The register's compiled line gives 1887, and the two are 0 years apart, and the name occurs once on the register. The ship's manifest heading says she sailed from Shanghai, and a passenger born in Poland landing at San Francisco in 1947 from Shanghai is the route's end: the refugees who waited out the war there. So the entry is taken as this person's under the archive's rule of 19 September 2026 for records from the route. The sheet is NARA microfilm publication M1410, film 387, image 762, read by the archive on 20 September 2026.
• Polish rabbis and rabbinical students registered with UNRRA, Shanghai (United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration, China Office;… — United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, Holocaust Survivors and Victims Database, list 48676
  The United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration's Shanghai register of Polish rabbis and rabbinical students, indexed by the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, has Chaja Lewinsztejn, housewife, arrived in China in Aug 1941, wishing to go to Palestine. The name occurs once on the register; the list is of the refugees who came from Vilna by way of Kobe, and an arrival in Shanghai in Aug 1941 is the route this line is recorded as taking.
• National Archives and Records Administration, Alien Case Files (Record Group 566), catalog descriptions read through the NARA Catalog API
  The National Archives holds an alien case file for Chaja Lewinsztein, born 7 November 1886 in Poland, who entered the United States at San Francisco on 17 January 1947 (file A6623200, NARA catalog NAID 608689447). The name and the birth year agree with the register's line, and the port and date of entry are the route's.
• Yad Vashem Archives, Jerusalem — the card file of Jewish refugees from Poland who found refuge in various countries, 1939–1941
  Yad Vashem's card file of Jewish refugees from Poland who found refuge in various countries, 1939–1941, has a card for Chaja Lewensztejn, born in 1886, of Mir, who was in Wilno during the war, and beside it a card for Jochwed Lewensztejn, born in 1914, also of Mir; the year and her daughter agree with this register line. Credit: Yad Vashem Archives.

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