Kahan Gina

Kahan Gina received transit visa no. 1281 at the Japanese consulate in Kaunas on 6 August 1940. The register records student, aged 22.

What the register records

Nationality as recorded

Polnisch

Age in 1940

22

Occupation

Student

The journey

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

Where this comes from

• The Kobe relatives list — refugees at Kobe in 1941 recorded with their relatives abroad. Seventy-six pages in numbered sheets (LIST No. 7, No. 16 and others), each line giving a name, age, birthplace, occupation and citizenship, and then…
  Entry 125 of the Kobe community's list of refugees and their relatives abroad: aged 23, born at Warsaw, a student; relatives abroad: an aunt, Guta Kotz, post office box 406, Charbin (Harbin); a cousin, Indelman, 562 West 174th Street, New York; grandparents, Kahan, Old City, Jerusalem.
• "California, San Francisco, Passenger Lists, 1893-1953", FamilySearch — index entry for Gina Kahan, 1946: born about 1918, Poland. Digitised from NARA microfilm publication M1410 (passenger lists of vessels arriving at San Francisco). Sh…
  FamilySearch's index of the San Francisco passenger lists, read by the archive on 20 September 2026, has Gina Kahan, born about 1918 in Poland, arriving at San Francisco in 1946 on the Marine Lynx. The register's compiled line gives 1918, 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 1946 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 386, image 589, read by the archive on 20 September 2026.

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