Szejna-Rywka Luski

Szejna-Rywka Luski received transit visa no. 539 at the Japanese consulate in Kaunas on 31 July 1940. Aged 49 in 1940.

What the register records

Nationality as recorded

Polnisch

Age in 1940

49

Family, per the Kitade-Bluman list

wife of #538

The journey

Reached Japan; reached Shanghai; aided by the Polish ambassador Tadeusz Romer; registered in Kobe for USA.

Where this comes from

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, Holocaust Survivors and Victims Database — the Flight and Rescue electronic dataset (source 20725): USHMM's own transcription of the Kaunas register, 2,140 persons with citizenship, visa type, iss…
  USHMM Flight and Rescue dataset: arrived in Japan 14 Feb 1941 (line 539)
• "California, San Francisco, Passenger Lists, 1893-1953", FamilySearch — index entry for Szejna Rywka Luski, 1941: born about 1891, Poland. Digitised from NARA microfilm publication M1410 (passenger lists of vessels arriving at San Franci…
  FamilySearch's index of the San Francisco passenger lists, read by the archive on 20 September 2026, has Szejna Rywka Luski, born about 1891 in Poland, arriving at San Francisco in 1941. The register's compiled line gives 1891, and the two agree. The name occurs once on the register, and a Polish-born passenger landing at San Francisco in 1941 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.
• JDC Archives, New York, collection AR 33/44 file 53 (the Jewish Community of Kobe's returns to the JDC, 1941; Set I, item 00761) — Set… — "List of refugees who left Japan to places other than Shanghai in the month of May 1941", Nos. 1–321
  She left Yokohama on the Tatuta Maru on 15 May 1941, bound for the USA (the Jewish Community of Kobe's list of departures, May 1941 (JDC Archives, AR 33/44 file 53)). The list reads: "″ Szejna". (Tatuta Maru, Yokohama, 15 May 1941.)
• 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 Szejna Ryfka Luski, born in 1891, married to Mojsze Lejba, who was in Wilno during the war; the year and her husband's name agree with this register line. Credit: Yad Vashem Archives.
• 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 3411, Szejna Rywka Luska, born in 1891 at Nekryszki, who came from Bedzin. She stands between Chaja Rejzel and Mojsze-Lejb Luska.

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