Symcha Binem Zurwin
Visa no. 1629 · Kaunas, 13 August 1940
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…
The 1940 Vilna refugee list has, at entry 7168, Symcha Binem Zorawin, born 1914 at Siedlce, who had come from Siedlce; the year agrees with the register's compiled age. - 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) - "California, San Francisco, Passenger Lists, 1893-1953", FamilySearch — index entry for Symcha Zurwin, 1947: born about 1914, Poland. Digitised from NARA microfilm publication M1410 (passenger lists of vessels arriving at San Francisco).…
FamilySearch's index of the San Francisco passenger lists, read by the archive on 20 September 2026, has Symcha Zurwin, born about 1914 in Poland, arriving at San Francisco in 1947 on the General M. C. Meigs. The register's compiled line gives 1915, and the two are 1 year 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 1947 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 392, image 745, read by the archive on 20 September 2026.
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