Lewin Samuel

Lewin Samuel received transit visa no. 1972 at the Japanese consulate in Kaunas on 19 August 1940. The register records rabbinical student - lublin yeshiva, aged 29.

What the register records

Nationality as recorded

Polish

Age in 1940

29

Occupation

Rabbinical Student - 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…
  6739, b.1911
• 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…
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