Chaim Grynsztejn
Visa no. 284 · Kaunas, 30 July 1940
Chaim Grynsztejn received transit visa no. 284 at the Japanese consulate in Kaunas on 30 July 1940. The register records merchant, aged 65.
What the register records Nationality as recorded Polnisch Age in 1940 65 Occupation Merchant Family, per the Kitade-Bluman list father of #283 The journey Reached Japan; registered in Kobe for USA.
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… 1887; b.Poczaiew 1915; from Kleck 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…No 261; age 67; born Brzesc; merchant; arr 2.2.41; from Vilno 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 284) Open this entry in the full register →
Chaim Grynsztejn is one of 2,140 people recorded in the surviving register of the transit
visas Chiune Sugihara issued at the Japanese consulate in Kaunas, Lithuania, in 1940.
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