Szatensztein Aleksander

Szatensztein Aleksander received transit visa no. 2011 at the Japanese consulate in Kaunas on 20 August 1940. Aged 16 in 1940.

What the register records

Nationality as recorded

Polish

Age in 1940

16

Family, per the Kitade-Bluman list

son of #175, #2012

The journey

Reached Japan.

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 5695, Aleksander Szatensztejn, born 1924, who had come from Warsaw; the year agrees with the register's age.
• "California, San Francisco, Passenger Lists, 1893-1953", FamilySearch — index entry for Alexander Szatenstejn, 1940: born about 1924, Poland. Digitised from NARA microfilm publication M1410 (passenger lists of vessels arriving at San Fra…
  FamilySearch's index of the San Francisco passenger lists, read by the archive on 20 September 2026, has Alexander Szatenstejn, born about 1924 in Poland, arriving at San Francisco in 1940. The register's compiled line gives 1924, and the two agree. The name occurs once on the register, and a Polish-born passenger landing at San Francisco in 1940 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.
• Manifest of alien passengers, SS Tatuta Maru, sailing port and date not read, arrived San Francisco November 19 (uncertain), 1940 (US National Archives, M1410, film 366; read on FamilySearch's copy)
  The same Tatuta Maru list (National Archives, FamilySearch's copy) records Alexander Szatensztejn, 16, a student born in Warsaw, travelling with his parents and younger sister to New York in November 1940.

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