Werner Rodolf Nast

Visa no. 466 · Kaunas, 31 July 1940

Werner Rodolf Nast received transit visa no. 466 at the Japanese consulate in Kaunas on 31 July 1940. Aged 21 in 1940.

What the register records

Reached Japan; registered in Kobe for USA.

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 31 of the Kobe Jewish Community's refugee register: aged 21, listed with Erhard and Kaethe Sinaisohn under Luxembourg, who arrived in Japan from Kaunas on 13 January 1941; left for the USA on 25 January 1941.
"California, San Francisco, Passenger Lists, 1893-1953", FamilySearch — the President Taft, Kobe to San Francisco, 8 February 1941 (NARA M1410 roll 367), images 61–63: the Sinasohn household
The President Taft's manifest, Kobe to San Francisco, 8 February 1941, read by the archive on 3 October 2026: Nast, Werner, 20, single, no occupation, reading German and English, a Luxembourg national, born at Berlin, on transit certificate No. 9 issued at Moscow on 23 December 1940; the passage paid by a friend, $45, never in the United States before, going to his brother Robert Nast at 319 West 94th Street, New York. He travelled with his mother Kathe Sinasohn (No. 467) and his stepfather Erhard Sinasohn (No. 472); the compiled list's 'father' is the manifest's stepfather.