Rina Rajinesaite

Visa no. 809 · Kaunas, 2 August 1940

Rina Rajinesaite received transit visa no. 809 at the Japanese consulate in Kaunas on 2 August 1940.

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Document — Rina Rajinesaite — RINA RAJINESAITE'S DECLARATION OF INTENTION No. 503095, sworn before the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York on 2 October 1941 — identified and given to this archive by Prof. Dr Ruth Leiserowitz, 27 August 2026. She gives her full name as RINA RAINE RAINESAITE, aged 20, a STUDENT, unmarried, living at 171 West 95th Street, New York; born 18 FEBRUARY 1921 at KAUNAS, LITHUANIA; present nationality Lithuanian. Her LAST PLACE OF FOREIGN RESIDENCE WAS KAUNAS, she EMIGRATED TO THE UNITED STATES FROM YOKOHAMA, JAPAN, and her lawful entry for permanent residence was at SAN FRANCISCO on 9 DECEMBER 1940 aboard the PRESIDENT TAFT. Ruth Leiserowitz adds that she married in New York in 1942.

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Nationality as recorded: Lithuanien

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RINA RAJINESAITE'S DECLARATION OF INTENTION No. 503095, sworn before the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York on 2 October 1941 — identified and given to this archive by Prof. Dr Ruth Leiserowitz, 27 August…
Her declaration of intention, sworn at New York on 2 October 1941, gives her as RINA RAINE RAINESAITE, a student of twenty, BORN AT KAUNAS ON 18 FEBRUARY 1921, whose LAST PLACE OF FOREIGN RESIDENCE WAS KAUNAS and who EMIGRATED FROM YOKOHAMA, JAPAN, entering at San Francisco on 9 DECEMBER 1940 aboard the President Taft. Sugihara wrote her onto this register at Kaunas on 2 August 1940, four months earlier. The register's own line was damaged and reads only 'ina ajinesaite'; the declaration supplies the whole name and the whole journey. Prof. Dr Ruth Leiserowitz, who found it and gave it to this archive, adds that she married in New York in 1942.
Declaration of Intention no. 503095, U.S. District Court, Southern District of New York, sworn at New York on 2 October 1941 (certificate of arrival 2-886050) — RINA RAINE RAINESAITE, register No. 809. Sent to the archive by Prof. Ruth L…
Her own declaration of intention, and it fills a line the register left almost empty. No. 809 is written Rajinesaite and the compiled list gives her no age, no occupation and no destination at all. She was RINA RAINE RAINESAITE, born in Kaunas on 18 February 1921 — nineteen years old when Sugihara wrote her visa on 2 August 1940 — a student, unmarried. She left from Yokohama and landed at San Francisco on 9 December 1940 aboard the SS President Taft, and by October 1941 was living on West 95th Street in New York and swearing that she meant to stay.
"California, San Francisco, Passenger Lists, 1893-1953", FamilySearch — index entry for Rina or Raine Rainesaite, 1940: born about 1921, Lithuania. Digitised from NARA microfilm publication M1410 (passenger lists of vessels arriving at S…
FamilySearch's index of the San Francisco passenger lists, read by the archive on 20 September 2026, has Rina or Raine Rainesaite, born about 1921 in Lithuania, arriving at San Francisco in 1940. The register has no age for the line. The name occurs once on the register, and a passenger born in Lithuania landing at San Francisco in 1940 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.
The numbered Sugihara visa list, the page of 2 August 1940 carrying Nos. 795 to 865 (among them No. 805, Szaps Jaskolka), photographed beside a ruler.
RINA RAJINESAITE'S DECLARATION OF INTENTION No. 503095, sworn before the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York on 2 October 1941 — identified and given to this archive by Prof. Dr Ruth Leiserowitz, 27 August…

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