Lewi Steiner

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…
  The 1940 Vilna refugee list has, at entry 5670, Lewi Steiner, born 1893 at Czortków, who had come from Warsaw; the year agrees with the register's age and Czortków agrees with the archive's other records.
• 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…
  Entry 313 of the Kobe community's list of refugees and their relatives abroad: aged 48, born at Czortkow, a merchant; relatives abroad: brothers, George and Hermann, and a mother, Pesia Steiner, 214 West 29th Street, 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
• "California, San Francisco, Passenger Lists, 1893-1953", FamilySearch — index entry for Lewi Steiner, 1949: born about 1894, Poland. Digitised from NARA microfilm publication M1410 (passenger lists of vessels arriving at San Francisco).…
  FamilySearch's index of the San Francisco passenger lists, read by the archive on 20 September 2026, has Lewi Steiner, born about 1894 in Poland, arriving at San Francisco in 1949 on the General W. H. Gordon. The register's compiled line gives 1893, and the two are 1 year apart, and the name occurs once on the register. The ship's manifest heading says she sailed from Shanghai, and a passenger born in Poland landing at San Francisco in 1949 from Shanghai is the route's end: the refugees who waited out the war there. So the entry is taken as this person's under the archive's rule of 19 September 2026 for records from the route. The sheet is NARA microfilm publication M1410, film 403, image 1170, read by the archive on 20 September 2026.

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