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…
  The 1940 Vilna refugee list has, at entry 6739, Samuel Lewin, born 1911 at Poland, who came from Rzeszow; the year agrees with the register's compiled age.
• 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 a Samuel Lewan at entry 3536, born 1893 at Birkenheim, who had come from Katowice. It is shown as a lead, not as this person: spelled Lewan; born 1893 against the register's age of 29, which puts the birth about 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…
  Entry 28 of the Kobe Jewish Community's refugee register: aged 59, born at Rohozec, a tailor, who arrived in Japan from Prague on 3 February 1941.
• "California, San Francisco, Passenger Lists, 1893-1953", FamilySearch — index entry for Samuel Dawid Lewin, 1941: born about 1912, Poland. Digitised from NARA microfilm publication M1410 (passenger lists of vessels arriving at San Franci…
  FamilySearch's index of the San Francisco passenger lists, read by the archive on 20 September 2026, has Samuel Dawid Lewin, born about 1912 in Poland, arriving at San Francisco in 1941. The register's compiled line gives 1911, 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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