Sztejnwach Pinchos

Sztejnwach Pinchos received transit visa no. 1909 at the Japanese consulate in Kaunas on 19 August 1940. Aged 35 in 1940.

What the register records

Nationality as recorded

Polish

Age in 1940

35

Family, per the Kitade-Bluman list

wife (39)

The journey

Reached Japan; registered in Kobe for USA.

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 5538, Pinches Sztejnwaks, born 1905, who had come from Warsaw; the year agrees with the register's age.
• Manifest of alien passengers, SS Asama Maru, sailing from Yokohama, Feb. 20 (day uncertain), 1941, arrived San Francisco date not read (US National Archives, M1410, film 368; read on FamilySearch's copy)
  The National Archives' San Francisco passenger list (FamilySearch's copy) shows Pinhus Boim Sztejnwaks, a pharmacist born in Sokołów Podlaski, sailing from Yokohama on the Asama Maru in February 1941 with his wife Maria, to join a cousin at Mountaindale, New York.

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