Symcha Binem Zurwin

Symcha Binem Zurwin received transit visa no. 1629 at the Japanese consulate in Kaunas on 13 August 1940. The register records cosmetician, aged 25.

What the register records

Nationality as recorded

Polnisch

Age in 1940

25

Occupation

Cosmetician

The journey

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

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…
  7168; Siedlce 1914 Siedlce
• 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 Jan 1941 (line 1629)