Sztejn Samuel

Sztejn Samuel received transit visa no. 1721 at the Japanese consulate in Kaunas on 14 August 1940. The register records rabbinical student - lubavitsch yeshiva, aged 25.

What the register records

Nationality as recorded

Polnisch

Age in 1940

25

Occupation

Rabbinical Student - Lubavitsch 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 5115, Samuel Sztejn, born 1914, who had come from Wiazm; the year agrees with the register's age.
• The JEWCOM register — the refugee register kept by the Refugee Committee of the Jewish Community of Kobe (Ashkenazim) at No. 6 Yamamoto-dori, 1-chome, whose cable address was 'JEWCOM Kobe'. Eighty-four pages on the committee's own printe…
  Entry 661 of the Kobe Jewish Community's refugee register: aged 27, born at Wiazyn, a yeshiva student, who arrived in Japan from Vilnius on 13 February 1941.
• The JEWCOM register — the refugee register kept by the Refugee Committee of the Jewish Community of Kobe (Ashkenazim) at No. 6 Yamamoto-dori, 1-chome, whose cable address was 'JEWCOM Kobe'. Eighty-four pages on the committee's own printe…
  Entry 118 (also numbered 97) of the Kobe Jewish Community's refugee register: aged 69, born at Felso, who arrived in Japan from Vienna on 12 December 1940; left for Bolivia, departing 25 December 1940.
• JDC Japan Emigration List — Kobe yeshivas, 1941 (Mir, Kamieniec, Slonim, Kleck, Radin, Telz, Lubavitch & others)
  No /24; 1914 Wiazin; Polish; uncle M.L.Rotstein, 494 Store Ave. Brooklyn N.Y.
• 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 13 Feb 1941 (line 1721)
• "California, San Francisco, Passenger Lists, 1893-1953", FamilySearch — index entry for Samuel Sztejn, 1941: 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 Samuel Sztejn, born about 1914 in Poland, arriving at San Francisco in 1941. The register's compiled line gives 1915, 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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