Lewi Steiner
Visa no. 968 · Kaunas, 3 August 1940
Lewi Steiner received transit visa no. 968 at the Japanese consulate in Kaunas on 3 August 1940. The register records merchant, aged 47.
What the register records Nationality as recorded Polnisch Age in 1940 47 Occupation Merchant The journey Reached Japan; reached Shanghai.
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… 5670, Czortkow, b.1928, 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…313; 48; Czortkow; merchant; brothers George and Hermann, mother Pesia Steiner 214 West 29 str New York The Shanghai Ledger — register of Polish citizens kept by the Consulate of Poland in Shanghai, 1934-1943 (original at the Archives of the Polish Ministry of Foreign Affairs, ref. 43/2003; digitised by the Library of Congress; indexed as… Registered with the Polish Consulate in Shanghai (ledger entry 1270); the names closely match this register line — approved by the owner's review, 19 Aug 2026 Open this entry in the full register →
Lewi Steiner 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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