Moses Lewin

Visa no. 6 · Kaunas, 24 July 1940

Moses Lewin received transit visa no. 6 at the Japanese consulate in Kaunas on 24 July 1940. The register records rabbinical student, aged 20.

What the register records

Destination given in the Kitade-Bluman list: USA.

Transit visa No. 6 issued on 24 July 1940 to Moses Lewin, a Lithuanian national.

6 Lithuanian Moses Lewin transit 7/24/1940 2

National Archives and Records Administration, Alien Case Files (Record Group 566), catalog descriptions read through the NARA Catalog API
A possible match, not yet confirmed: The National Archives holds an alien case file for Moses Lewin, born 22 October 1919 in Poland, son of Solomon and Hinda, who entered the United States at New York on 2 July 1948 (file A6934988, NARA catalog NAID 643614987). The name and the birth year fit the register's line, but Moses Lewin is a common name, the archive holds no record of this line in Japan or Shanghai, and the entry is in 1948; held as a lead.
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 Mojzesz Lejb Lewin, born in 1920, of Lwów, who was in Wilno during the war. The archive attaches it under its rule of 19 September 2026: the card file is a record of the refugees in Wilno, where the road through Sugihara's visas began; the full name occurs once on the register; and the card places the person in Wilno in 1939–41, on the road to Sugihara's visas. Credit: Yad Vashem Archives.
The numbered Sugihara visa list, searchable text — the register of the visas issued at Kaunas, transcribed and reconciled by Dr George Bluman (University of British Columbia) and the researcher and author Akira Kitade. This is the text b…