Chana Rabinowicz

Chana Rabinowicz received transit visa no. 211 at the Japanese consulate in Kaunas on 30 July 1940. Aged 54 in 1940.

What the register records

Nationality as recorded

Polnisch

Age in 1940

54

Family, per the Kitade-Bluman list

wife of #212

The journey

Reached Japan; aided by the Polish ambassador Tadeusz Romer; registered in Kobe for USA.

Where this comes from

• "California, San Francisco, Passenger Lists, 1893-1953", FamilySearch — index entry for Chana Rabinowicz, 1941: born about 1885, Poland. Digitised from NARA microfilm publication M1410 (passenger lists of vessels arriving at San Francisc…
  FamilySearch's index of the San Francisco passenger lists, read by the archive on 20 September 2026, has Chana Rabinowicz, born about 1885 in Poland, arriving at San Francisco in 1941. The register's compiled line gives 1886, 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.
• JDC Archives, New York, collection AR 33/44 file 53 (the Jewish Community of Kobe's returns to the JDC, 1941; Set I, item 00761) — Set… — SS Kamakura Maru, aliens aboard, left Honolulu 22 June 1941 late p.m., due San Francisco 27/28 June
  She sailed on the Kamakura Maru with three children, Esther, Bluma and Samuel, leaving Honolulu for San Francisco on 22 June 1941, bound for St. Paul, Minnesota (JWB Hawaii list, forwarded to the JDC; JDC Archives, AR 33/44 file 53). The list reads: "Rabinowitz, Chana Mrs. — 56 — M — F — Poland …… St. Paul, Minn." then "″ Esther R. 18 S F", "″ Bluma 16 S F", "″ Samuel 13 S M". (Kamakura Maru, left Honolulu 22 Jun 1941 for San Francisco.)
• The 1950 United States census (US National Archives, 1950census.archives.gov)
  In April 1950 the United States census found her in Brooklyn, aged 64, born in Poland, with her husband, a rabbi, and her grown children, among them Esther and Samuel who had crossed the Pacific with her in 1941 (National Archives, 1950 census, enumeration district 24-3402, sheets 12–13).
• Manifest of alien passengers, M.S. Kamakura Maru, sailing from Yokohama 28 June 1941, arrived San Francisco date not read (US National Archives, M1410, film 370; read on FamilySearch's copy)
  The Kamakura Maru's manifest, Yokohama to San Francisco in June 1941 (US National Archives, read on FamilySearch's copy), lists Chana Rabinowicz, 56, born in Izabelino and last living in Kaunas, with three of her children, going to her husband Faitel Rabinowicz in St. Paul, Minnesota. The archive takes this as hers because the name appears once on Sugihara's list and the voyage fits the route; the compilers record her age as 54, the list gives 56.

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