Lejzer Lewinsztejn

Lejzer Lewinsztejn received transit visa no. 663 at the Japanese consulate in Kaunas on 1 August 1940. Aged 47 in 1940.

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What the register records

Nationality as recorded

Lithuanien

Age in 1940

47

The journey

Reached Japan; registered in Kobe for USA.

What is known

The image shows a passport page bearing Chiune Sugihara's handwritten Japanese transit visa stamp, amended to read 'Seen for the journey to U.S.A. through Japan, Consul du Japon \u00e0 Kaunas,' dated 1 August 1940. Alongside it is a Soviet exit/transit visa (No. 104652) issued to Lejzer Lewinsztejn, authorizing him to cross the USSR border at Vladivostok within a limited number of days. Together the two visas illustrate the escape route many Jewish refugees took from Lithuania across Siberia to Japan and onward to the United States.

Seen for the journey to U.S.A. through Japan Consul du Japon \u00e0 Kaunas \u0412\u0438\u0437\u0430 \u2116 104652 \u0413\u0440. \u041b\u0435\u0432\u0438\u043d\u0448\u0442\u0435\u0439\u043d \u041b\u0435\u0439\u0437\u0435\u0440\u0438\u0441

Where this comes from

• "California, San Francisco, Passenger Lists, 1893-1953", FamilySearch — index entry for Leizeris Levinsteinas, 1941: born about 1894, Lithuania. Digitised from NARA microfilm publication M1410 (passenger lists of vessels arriving at San…
  FamilySearch's index of the San Francisco passenger lists, read by the archive on 20 September 2026, has Leizeris Levinsteinas, born about 1894 in Lithuania, arriving at San Francisco in 1941. The register's compiled line gives 1893, and the two are 1 year apart. The name occurs once on the register, and a passenger born in Lithuania 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.
• "California, San Francisco, Passenger Lists, 1893-1953", FamilySearch — index entry for Leizeris Levinsteinas, 1941: born about 1894, Lithuania. Digitised from NARA microfilm publication M1410 (passenger lists of vessels arriving at San…
  The Tatuta Maru sailed from Yokohama on 6 March 1941, took shore leave at Honolulu on the 14th and landed at San Francisco on 20 March 1941; its manifest has Leizeris Levinsteinas, aged 47, married, an attorney, reading Lithuanian and English, Lithuanian, born at Pakuonis, last residence Kaunas, on a quota immigration visa, No. 309, issued at Yokohama on 1 March 1941, five days before sailing. The register gives his age as 47. (The sheet is in the National Archives' passenger lists of vessels arriving at San Francisco, microfilm M1410; the archive read FamilySearch's copy.)
• livedoor blog: Lejzer Lewinsztejn visa (video still) — "to U.S.A." amendment, 1 Aug 1940, Soviet visa 104652

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