Rosa Stein

Rosa Stein received transit visa no. 42 at the Japanese consulate in Kaunas on 27 July 1940. Aged 25 in 1940.

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…
  5392, 1922
• 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)