Irena Dynenson

Irena Dynenson received transit visa no. 566 at the Japanese consulate in Kaunas on 31 July 1940. Aged 13 in 1940.

What the register records

Nationality as recorded

Polnisch

Age in 1940

13

The journey

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…
  1093; Lodz; 1927
• Oral history interview with Irene Steinman (née Dynenson) — USC Shoah Foundation Visual History Archive, interview 38083. Catalogue: born Nov 5 1927, Łódź (Łódź, Poland); born Lodz 5 Nov 1927; parents Benjamin and Helena Dynenson; Bluman…
  USC Shoah Foundation VHA interview 38083: Irene Steinman (née Dynenson) — the interviewee herself — gave a testimony (catalogue: born Nov 5 1927, Łódź (Łódź, Poland)); born Lodz 5 Nov 1927; parents Benjamin and Helena Dynenson; Bluman: No.566 Irena Dynenson, 13