Samuel Dawid Bernsztejn

Samuel Dawid Bernsztejn received transit visa no. 992 at the Japanese consulate in Kaunas on 3 August 1940. The register records lawyer, aged 31.

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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…
  The 1940 Vilna refugee list has, at entry 594, Dawid Berensztejn, born 1908 at Suwałki, who came from Suwałki; the year agrees with the register's compiled age, and his wife Rachel follows him on the list, as she does on the register (No. 1032).
• 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.
• "Washington, King, Seattle, Passenger Lists, 1890-1957", FamilySearch — index entry for Samuel Dawid Bernsztejn, 1941: born about 1909, Poland. Digitised from NARA microfilm publication M1383 (passenger and crew lists of vessels arriving…
  FamilySearch's index of the Seattle passenger lists, read by the archive on 20 September 2026, has Samuel Dawid Bernsztejn, born about 1909 in Poland, arriving at Seattle in 1941. The register's compiled line gives 1909, and the two agree. The name occurs once on the register, and a Polish-born passenger landing at Seattle 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.
• The JEWCOM register — the refugee register kept by the Refugee Committee of the Jewish Community of Kobe (Ashkenazim) at No. 6 Yamamoto-dori, 1-chome, whose cable address was 'JEWCOM Kobe'. Eighty-four pages on the committee's own printe…
  The Kobe Jewish Community's refugee register lists Samuel Dawid Bernsztejn, aged 33, born at Suwalki, a lawyer, who reached Japan from Vilno on 13 February 1941. Sugihara's ledger writes the surname Bersztejn; the register writes Bernsztejn.
• The Hikawa Maru, arriving at Seattle in 1941: list or manifest of alien passengers, the sheet that names Nauma Warhaftig — US National Archives, Record Group 85 (Immigration and Naturalization Service), Passenger and Crew Lists of Vessel…
• Arriving at Seattle: the continuation sheet, with the relatives named and the destinations, for the sheet that names Nauma Warhaftig — US National Archives, Record Group 85 (Immigration and Naturalization Service), Passenger and Crew Lis…

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