Ruwin Grynsztejn

Ruwin Grynsztejn received transit visa no. 283 at the Japanese consulate in Kaunas on 30 July 1940. The register records merchant, aged 41.

What the register records

Nationality as recorded

Polnisch

Age in 1940

41

Occupation

Merchant

Family, per the Kitade-Bluman list

son of #284

The journey

Reached Japan; registered in Kobe for USA.

Where this comes from

• 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 2 Feb 1941 (line 283)
• "California, San Francisco, Passenger Lists, 1893-1953", FamilySearch — index entry for Ruwin Grynsztejn, 1941: born about 1899, 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 Ruwin Grynsztejn, born about 1899 in Poland, arriving at San Francisco in 1941. The register's compiled line gives 1899, and the two agree. 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
  He and his father sailed on the Kamakura Maru, which left Honolulu for San Francisco on 22 June 1941; their destination was 1535 Longfellow Avenue, the Bronx (JWB Hawaii list, forwarded to the JDC; JDC Archives, AR 33/44 file 53). The list reads: "Grynsztejn, H. — 66 — W[idowed] — M — Poland — 1535 Longfellow, Bronx, N.Y." / "″ Rubin — 43 — S — M — ″ — Merchant". (Kamakura Maru, left Honolulu 22 Jun 1941 for San Francisco.)
• 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 Ruwin Grynsztejn, 42, a merchant born in Brześć, travelling with his father Chaim and bound for New York.

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