Abram Wajnsztejn
Visa no. 571 · Kaunas, 31 July 1940
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… 8277, Lodz, 1912, Warszawa 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…289, 1912 Lodz, Polish; uncle E.Goldetz 91 Wall Str NY
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Abram Wajnsztejn is one of 2,140 people recorded in the surviving register of the transit
visas Chiune Sugihara issued at the Japanese consulate in Kaunas, Lithuania, in 1940.
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