Samuel Dawid Bernsztejn
Visa no. 992 · Kaunas, 3 August 1940
Samuel Dawid Bernsztejn received transit visa no. 992 at the Japanese consulate in Kaunas on 3 August 1940. The register records lawyer, aged 31.
What the register records Nationality as recorded Polnisch Age in 1940 31 Occupation Lawyer Family, per the Kitade-Bluman list husband of #1032 The journey Reached Japan; aided by the Polish ambassador Tadeusz Romer; registered in Kobe for Canada.
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… 584; 1908; from Suwalki hunt/familysearch: US arrival manifest: Samuel Dawid Bernsztejn, Seattle, 1941 "Seattle Passenger Lists", FamilySearch, entry for Samuel Dawid Bernsztejn, 1941. Ship: Hikawa Maru. Matched from the Hikawa Maru's Polish-born passenger list (162 people, 35 matched). Register No.992 'Dawid Bersztejn' records age 31; the manifest gives born 1909, arriving 1941. Open this entry in the full register →
Samuel Dawid Bernsztejn 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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