Rosa Stein
Visa no. 42 · Kaunas, 27 July 1940
Rosa Stein received transit visa no. 42 at the Japanese consulate in Kaunas on 27 July 1940. Aged 25 in 1940.
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What the register records
- Nationality as recorded
- Polnisch
- Age in 1940
- 25
- Family, per the Kitade-Bluman list
- wife of #40
The journey
Reached Japan; registered in Kobe for Mexico and then 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…
The 1940 Vilna refugee list has a Róża Sztejn at entry 5392, born 1922 at Vienna, who had come from Bielsko. It is shown as a lead, not as this person: born 1922 against the register's age of 25, which puts the birth about 1915. - "California, Los Angeles, Passenger Lists, 1907-1948", FamilySearch — index entry for Rosa Stein, 1940: born about 1915, Krakow, Poland. Digitised from NARA microfilm publication M1764 (passenger lists of vessels arriving at Los Angeles)…
FamilySearch's index of the Los Angeles passenger lists, read by the archive on 20 September 2026, has Rosa Stein, born about 1915 in Krakow, Poland, arriving at Los Angeles in 1940. The register's compiled line gives 1915, and the two agree. The name occurs once on the register, and a Polish-born passenger landing at Los Angeles in 1940 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. - Yad Vashem Archives, Jerusalem — the card file of Jewish refugees from Poland who found refuge in various countries, 1939–1941
Yad Vashem's card file of Jewish refugees from Poland who found refuge in various countries, 1939–1941, has a card for Roza Stein, born in 1915, of Kraków, a master of law, who was in Wilno during the war; the year and the town agree with this register line. Credit: Yad Vashem Archives. - MJH eMuseum object 2011.31.4 (Gift of Ruth Galai and Dr. Anna Kadish): Panamian transit visa of Rosa Stein, full-resolution scan 1/2 (media 25299)
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