Rubinsztein Daniel

Rubinsztein Daniel received transit visa no. 1523 at the Japanese consulate in Kaunas on 7 August 1940. The register records worker, aged 30.

What the register records

Nationality as recorded

Polnisch

Age in 1940

30

Occupation

Worker

Family, per the Kitade-Bluman list

wife Inge (19), brother of #1520

The journey

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

Travelled with, and never given a number

• Inge — wife, aged 19

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

• List of Refugees, Vilna, 1940 — JDC Archives, New York, collection AR 33/44, file 00876. The contemporary register of Polish Jewish refugees in Lithuania, running to more than nine thousand numbered entries; the fullest independent check…
  The 1940 Vilna refugee list has, at entry 7826, Daniel Rubinsztej, born 1910 at Warszawa, who had come from Warszawa; the year agrees with the register's compiled age.
• 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 266 of the Kobe community's list of refugees and their relatives abroad: aged 31, born at Warsaw, a worker; relatives abroad: an uncle, Jose Vysoki, Montevideo; an aunt in Cleveland, Ohio; an uncle, Mandelewajg, Melbourne.
• Mark Halpern correspondence (9 Aug 2026): Netherlands Legation certificate, Tokyo, 18 March 1941 — Minister J.C. Pabst certifies that 74 named persons of Polish nationality "do not need a Netherlands visa in order to proceed to the Nethe…
  Amakusa Maru 74 — Netherlands Legation certificate (Tokyo, 18 Mar 1941), line 33. Cross-referenced by Mark Halpern, researcher (Aug 2026); archive pass concurs.
• The list of seventy-four — Netherlands Legation, Tokyo, 18 March 1941. On the Legation's letterhead (Gezantschap der Nederlanden), certifying 'that the undermentioned persons all of Polish nationality do not need a Netherlands visa in or…
  Named at position 33 of seventy-four on the Netherlands Legation's certificate of 18 March 1941 — the list of the people who reached Tsuruga on Sugihara's transit visas without a Curaçao endorsement, were refused permission to land, and whose ship was turned back towards Vladivostok. The Legation typed the name as "Rubinstein Daniel". A pencilled note beside it gives this register number, which is how the two records are joined.
• "California, San Francisco, Passenger Lists, 1893-1953", FamilySearch — index entry for Aniela Rubinstein, 1941: born about 1909, Lithuania. Digitised from NARA microfilm publication M1410 (passenger lists of vessels arriving at San Fran…
  FamilySearch's index of the San Francisco passenger lists, read by the archive on 20 September 2026, has Aniela Rubinstein, born about 1909 in Lithuania, arriving at San Francisco in 1941. The register's compiled line gives 1910, and the two are 1 year apart. The name occurs once on the register, and a passenger born in Lithuania landing at San Francisco 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.
• "California, Los Angeles, Passenger Lists, 1907-1948", FamilySearch — index entry for Aniela Rubinstein, 1941: born about 1909, Lithuania. Digitised from NARA microfilm publication M1764 (passenger lists of vessels arriving at Los Angele…
  FamilySearch's index of the Los Angeles passenger lists, read by the archive on 20 September 2026, has Aniela Rubinstein, born about 1909 in Lithuania, arriving at Los Angeles in 1941. The register's compiled line gives 1910, and the two are 1 year apart. The name occurs once on the register, and a passenger born in Lithuania landing at Los Angeles 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.
• National Archives and Records Administration, Alien Case Files (Record Group 566), catalog descriptions read through the NARA Catalog API
  A possible match, not yet confirmed: The National Archives holds an alien case file for Daniel Rubinsztejn, born 4 October 1910 in Poland, who entered the United States at San Francisco on 9 December 1954 (file 13702475, NARA catalog NAID 40401092). The name and the birth year agree with the register's line, but the entry is thirteen years after the route and the register sends this line to Australia, so the file is noted here as a lead only.
• The Shanghai Ledger — register of Polish citizens kept by the Consulate of Poland in Shanghai, 1934-1943 (original at the Archives of the Polish Ministry of Foreign Affairs, ref. 43/2003; digitised by the Library of Congress; indexed as…
  The Polish consulate's Shanghai ledger has Daniel Rubinsztejn on page 1166, and his brother Abraham on the page before. Sugihara's ledger writes the name Rubinsztein; the Shanghai ledger writes Rubinsztejn.

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