Abram Wajnsztejn

Abram Wajnsztejn received transit visa no. 571 at the Japanese consulate in Kaunas on 31 July 1940. The register records merchant, aged 28.

What the register records

Nationality as recorded

Polnisch

Age in 1940

28

Occupation

Merchant

Family, per the Kitade-Bluman list

brother of #570

The journey

Reached Japan; aided by the Polish ambassador Tadeusz Romer; registered in Kobe for Cuba and then Australia.

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 8277, Abram Weinstein, born 1912 at Lodz, who had come from Warszawa; the year agrees with the register's compiled age.
• The Kobe relatives list — refugees at Kobe in 1941 recorded with their relatives abroad. Seventy-six pages in numbered sheets (LIST No. 7, No. 16 and others), each line giving a name, age, birthplace, occupation and citizenship, and then…
  Entry 289 of the Kobe community's list of refugees and their relatives abroad: born 1912 at Lodz, Polish; relatives abroad: an uncle, E. Goldetz, 91 Wall Street, New York.
• "California, Los Angeles, Passenger Lists, 1907-1948", FamilySearch — index entry for Abram Weinstein, 1941: born about 1912, Lods, Poland. Digitised from NARA microfilm publication M1764 (passenger lists of vessels arriving at Los Angel…
  FamilySearch's index of the Los Angeles passenger lists, read by the archive on 20 September 2026, has Abram Weinstein, born about 1912 in Lods, Poland, arriving at Los Angeles in 1941. The register's compiled line gives 1912, and the two agree. The name occurs once on the register, and a Polish-born passenger landing at Los Angeles 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.

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