Chaim Grynsztejn

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

• 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 261 of the Kobe Jewish Community's refugee register: aged 67, born at Brzesc, a merchant, who arrived in Japan from Vilnius on 2 February 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 2 Feb 1941 (line 284)
• "California, San Francisco, Passenger Lists, 1893-1953", FamilySearch — index entry for Chaim Grynsztejn, 1941: born about 1875, 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 Chaim Grynsztejn, born about 1875 in Poland, arriving at San Francisco in 1941. The register's compiled line gives 1875, 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
  as No. 283, "He and his son …". The list reads: "Grynsztejn, H. — 66 — W. — M — Poland — 1535 Longfellow, Bronx, N.Y." (the initial "H." for Chaim/Haim).
• 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 ship's manifest of the Kamakura Maru, from Yokohama in June 1941, held by the US National Archives and read on FamilySearch's copy, lists Chaim Grynsztejn, 66, a widowed merchant born in Brześć, travelling with his son Ruwin on an immigration visa issued in Tokyo; he was going to his nephew Harry Wosk in the Bronx.
• The Kobe relatives list — refugees at Kobe in 1941 recorded with their relatives abroad. Seventy-six pages in numbered sheets (LIST No. 7, No. 16 and others), each line giving a name, age, birthplace, occupation and citizenship, and then…
  The Kobe community's list of refugees and their relatives abroad has Chaim Grynsztajn of Brzesc nad Bugiem, with his son Ruwin.

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