Adolf Weinstein

Adolf Weinstein received transit visa no. 146 at the Japanese consulate in Kaunas on 29 July 1940. The register records chemist, aged 70.

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What the register records

Nationality as recorded

Polnisch

Age in 1940

70

Occupation

Chemist

Family, per the Kitade-Bluman list

wife Olga (47)

The journey

Reached Japan; aided by the Polish ambassador Tadeusz Romer; registered in Kobe for Canada.

Travelled with, and never given a number

• Olga — wife, aged 47

The register recorded visa holders. It did not reliably record the wives and children who travelled on somebody else’s visa, so these people have no entry of their own and cannot be searched for. Where the archive has recovered a name, it is here.

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 190 of the Kobe Jewish Community's refugee register: aged 71, born at Luck.
• US arrival manifest: Adolf Weinstein, Seattle, 1941
  "Seattle Passenger Lists", FamilySearch, entry for Adolf Weinstein, 1941. Ship: Heian Maru. Matched from the Heian Maru's Polish-born passenger list (198 people, of whom 57 matched the register). Register No.146 'Adolf einstein' records age 70; the manifest gives born 1870, arriving 1941. Con
• 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 13 Jan 1941 (line 146)
• "Washington, King, Seattle, Passenger Lists, 1890-1957", FamilySearch — index entry for Adolf Weinstein, 1941: born about 1870, Poland. Digitised from NARA microfilm publication M1383 (passenger and crew lists of vessels arriving at Seat…
  FamilySearch's index of the Seattle passenger lists, read by the archive on 20 September 2026, has Adolf Weinstein, born about 1870 in Poland, arriving at Seattle in 1941. The register's compiled line gives 1870, and the two agree. The name occurs once on the register, and a Polish-born passenger landing at Seattle in 1941 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.
• JDC Archives, New York, collection AR 33/44 file 53 (the Jewish Community of Kobe's returns to the JDC, 1941; Set I, item 00761) — Set I pp. 5–7 — "List… — "List of persons who left Japan for Shanghai in the month of July 1941", Nos. 1–15
  He left Yokohama on the Heian Maru ("Heyan M.") on 17 July 1941, bound for Canada (the Jewish Community of Kobe's list of departures, July 1941 (JDC Archives, AR 33/44 file 53)). The list reads: "Weinstein Adolf, ″ Olga — Polish — Yokohama — Canada". (Heian Maru ("Heyan M."), Yokohama, 17 July 1941, destination Canada.)
• The HEIAN, arriving at Seattle in 1941: list or manifest of alien passengers, the sheet that names Adolf Weinstein — US National Archives, Record Group 85 (Immigration and Naturalization Service), Passenger and Crew Lists of Vessels Arri…
• Arriving at Seattle: the continuation sheet, with the relatives named and the destinations, for the sheet that names Adolf Weinstein — US National Archives, Record Group 85 (Immigration and Naturalization Service), Passenger and Crew Lis…

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