Michal Grynsztein

Visa no. 277 · Kaunas, 30 July 1940

Michal Grynsztein received transit visa no. 277 at the Japanese consulate in Kaunas on 30 July 1940. The register records lawyer, aged 29.

What the register records

Reached Japan; registered in Kobe for Canada.

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 1729, Michał Grynsztejn, born 1911 at Warszawa, who came from Warszawa; the year agrees with the register's compiled age.
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 66 of the Kobe Jewish Community's refugee register: aged 30, born at Warsaw, a lawyer, who arrived in Japan on 13 January 1941.
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, Holocaust Survivors and Victims Database — the Flight and Rescue electronic dataset (source 20725): USHMM's own transcription of the Kaunas register, 2,140 persons with citizenship, visa type, iss…
USHMM Flight and Rescue dataset: arrived in Japan 13 Jan 1942 (line 277)
HaBoker, 7 May 1941 (National Library of Israel, Historical Jewish Press)
A letter from Kobe printed in HaBoker on 7 May 1941 names 'Mgr. Michael Grinsztejn (Warsaw)' among the General Zionists who had reached Japan from Lithuania — the Warsaw lawyer of this line (National Library of Israel, Historical Jewish Press).