Loew Ernst received transit visa no. 1719 at the Japanese consulate in Kaunas on 14 August 1940. Aged 36 in 1940.
Documents
S.S. Seia Maru manifest — sailed Yokohama 2 November 1940, arrived Los Angeles (San Pedro) 17 November 1940: line 1, Loew Ernst Richard, engineer, born Munich, German, last permanent residence Kaunas, Lithuania; detained aboard as an in-transit passenger for Argentina ('no visa or landing certificates'), departed with the ship 19 November. Supplied by Prof. Ruth Leiserowitz, Aug 2026
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What the register records
Nationality as recorded
German
Age in 1940
36
The journey
Reached Japan; reached Shanghai; registered in Kobe for USA.
Where this comes from
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 182 of the Kobe community's list of refugees and their relatives abroad: aged 24, born at Fulda, a rabbi, German; relatives abroad: parents, Levi, 400 Fort Washington Avenue, New York.
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 69 of the Kobe community's list of refugees and their relatives abroad: aged 63, born at Toeplitz, a clerk, German; relatives abroad: a son, J. Loebl, Baltimore, Maryland.
Prof. Dr Ruth Leiserowitz (Berlin), correspondence of 20 August… — research notes on six lines of the register, drawn from Lithuanian, German and United States records. What she found for each person is set out on that person's own entry.
S.S. Seia Maru manifest — sailed Yokohama 2 November 1940, arrived Los Angeles (San Pedro) 17 November 1940: line 1, Loew Ernst Richard, engineer, born Munich, German, last permanent residence Kaunas, Lithuania; detained aboard as an in-…