Lewin Markus

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…
  6737, b.1911, from Rzeszow
• 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…
  185, 30, Sambor, journal., Polish; friend Rabbi Silver 820 Hutchins Av Cincinati, Shenkolewski 616 Bedford Av Brooklyn NY