Zusman Epsztejn

Zusman Epsztejn received transit visa no. 1806 at the Japanese consulate in Kaunas on 16 August 1940. Aged 39 in 1940.

What the register records

Nationality as recorded

Polnisch

Age in 1940

39

The journey

Reached Japan; registered in Kobe for South Africa?.

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…
  1147; 1901; Baranowicze
• hunt/familysearch: US arrival manifest: Zusman Epstein, Seattle, 1940
  "Seattle Passenger Lists", FamilySearch, entry for Zusman Epstein, 1940. Ship: Hikawa Maru. Matched from the Hikawa Maru's Polish-born passenger list (162 people, 35 matched). Register No.1806 'Zusman Epsztejn' records age 39; the manifest gives born 1901, arriving 1940.