Lewin Markus
Visa no. 1686 · Kaunas, 13 August 1940
Lewin Markus received transit visa no. 1686 at the Japanese consulate in Kaunas on 13 August 1940. The register records rabbi - lublin yeshiva, aged 29.
What the register records
- Nationality as recorded
- Polnisch
- Age in 1940
- 29
- Occupation
- Rabbi - Lublin Yeshiva
The journey
Reached Japan; reached Shanghai; aided by the Polish ambassador Tadeusz Romer; registered in Kobe for Canada.
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 6737, Markus Lewin, born 1911 at Poland, who came from Rzeszow; 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 185 of the Kobe community's list of refugees and their relatives abroad: aged 30, born at Sambor, a journalist, Polish; relatives abroad: a friend, Rabbi Silver, 820 Hutchins Avenue, Cincinnati; Shenkolewski, 616 Bedford Avenue, Brooklyn, New York. - "California, San Francisco, Passenger Lists, 1893-1953", FamilySearch — index entry for Markus Lewin, 1941: born about 1912, 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 Markus Lewin, born about 1912 in Poland, arriving at San Francisco in 1941. The register's compiled line gives 1911, and the two are 1 year apart. The name occurs once on the register, and a Polish-born passenger 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.
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