Moses Weinfeld

Moses Weinfeld received transit visa no. 136 at the Japanese consulate in Kaunas on 29 July 1940.

What the register records

Nationality as recorded

Polnisch

Where this comes from

• "California, Los Angeles, Passenger Lists, 1907-1948", FamilySearch — index entry for Marek Vel Moses-Nathan Weinfeld, 1940: born about 1897, Gorlice, Poland. Digitised from NARA microfilm publication M1764 (passenger lists of vessels ar…
  FamilySearch's index of the Los Angeles passenger lists, read by the archive on 20 September 2026, has Marek Vel Moses-Nathan Weinfeld, born about 1897 in Gorlice, Poland, arriving at Los Angeles in 1940. The register has no age for the line. The name occurs once on the register, and a Polish-born passenger landing at Los Angeles 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.
• "California, Los Angeles, Passenger Lists, 1907-1948", FamilySearch — index entry for Marek Vel Moses-Nathan Weinfeld, 1940: born about 1897, Gorlice, Poland. Digitised from NARA microfilm publication M1764 (passenger lists of vessels ar…
  The manifest sheet itself is headed 'From Yokohama to Santos': a Japanese liner that sailed from Yokohama on 24 December 1940 for Brazil, calling at the port of Los Angeles on the way. Its second line is Weinfeld Marek vel Moses-Nathan, aged 43, married, a manufacturer, reading Polish and German, Polish, born at Gorlice, travelling on a Polish passport issued on 4 December 1940, with no American visa because he was only passing through. The inspector examined him at Los Angeles on 7 January 1941 and recorded his departure with the ship from San Pedro on 8 January, bound for Santos. The register's line has no age; the Kobe lists are silent on his destination; but a Polish-born man leaving Japan on a Sugihara visa in December 1940 for Brazil is the route, and the name occurs once on the register. The sheet was read on David Rosen's pointer of 6 October 2026, which also supplied the alias form.
• Death registration of Marek vel Moses Nathan Weinfeld, São Paulo, 10 May 1968, certificate 144924 (Brazil, São Paulo civil registration; read on FamilySearch, "Brasil, São Paulo, Registro Civil, 1925-2023")
  Marek Weinfeld reached Brazil and stayed. The São Paulo civil register records his death there on 10 May 1968, aged 70, under the same unusual form of his name, Marek vel Moses Nathan Weinfeld, naming his parents David and Springe Weinfeld and his wife Lea Matel. The birth year agrees with the Los Angeles manifest on this page, and the name, in that form, belongs to nobody else. The same index has him visiting New York in 1952 and 1953. (FamilySearch's index of the São Paulo civil registration, certificate 144924.) Found on David Rosen's pointer of 6 October 2026.

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