Rywka Rubinstejn

Rywka Rubinstejn received transit visa no. 526 at the Japanese consulate in Kaunas on 31 July 1940. Aged 39 in 1940.

What the register records

Nationality as recorded

Polnisch

Age in 1940

39

Family, per the Kitade-Bluman list

wife of #525

The journey

Reached Japan; registered in Kobe for 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, at entry 4953, Rubinsztejn Lew Rywka, born 1901 at Warsaw, who came from Warsaw; the year agrees with the age the register gives.

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