Scheinolel Stein

Scheinolel Stein received transit visa no. 41 at the Japanese consulate in Kaunas on 27 July 1940. Aged 59 in 1940.

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What the register records

Nationality as recorded

Polnisch

Age in 1940

59

Family, per the Kitade-Bluman list

mother of #40

The journey

Reached Japan; registered in Kobe for Mexico and then USA.

Where this comes from

• The Ginyo Maru's passenger manifest — sailed from Yokohama 24 October 1940, called at San Pedro (Los Angeles) about 20 November and reached Balboa in the Panama Canal Zone on 15 December 1940 — the sheets carrying the Kornbluth, Morgenst…
  The Ginyo Maru's manifest, found by David Rosen and read in FamilySearch's index on 19 September 2026, lists Schendel Stein, born 1881 at Kraków, arriving at Los Angeles in November 1940 from Yokohama with Emanuel Stein, born 1905, and Rosa Stein, born 1915. The compiled line has Scheindel Stein 59 in 1940, so born about 1881, and Emanuel is the register's No. 40; the entry is hers.
• MJH eMuseum object 197.98 (Gift of Gila Haimovic): Lithuanian safe conduct document of Scheindel Stein, full-resolution scan 1/3 (media 20813)
• MJH eMuseum object 199.98 (Gift of Gila Haimovic): Transit visa of Scheindel Stein - Russian-language affidavit issued by the Japanese consulate, Sugihara stamp dated 27 Jul 1940 (no image published)
• LEIDIMAS / SAUF-CONDUIT No. 02886 of the REPUBLIC OF LITHUANIA, issued at Kaunas on 30 August 1940 by the Governor of Kaunas District, in lieu of a foreign passport and valid for all countries until 1 March 1941. It is made out to STEIN…

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