Adam Szwarysztejn
Visa no. 997 · Kaunas, 3 August 1940
Adam Szwarysztejn received transit visa no. 997 at the Japanese consulate in Kaunas on 3 August 1940. The register records manufacturer (paper mills), aged 51.
What the register records Nationality as recorded Polnisch Age in 1940 51 Occupation Manufacturer (Paper Mills) Family, per the Kitade-Bluman list husband of #999
The journey Reached Japan; registered in Kobe for Argentina?.
Where this comes from "California, Los Angeles, Passenger Lists, 1907-1948", FamilySearch — index entry for Adam Szwarcsztajn, 1940: born about 1890, Warshaw Poland. Digitised from NARA microfilm publication M1764 (passenger lists of vessels arriving at Los A… FamilySearch's index of the Los Angeles passenger lists, read by the archive on 20 September 2026, has Adam Szwarcsztajn, born about 1890 in Warshaw Poland, arriving at Los Angeles in 1940. The register's compiled line gives 1889, and the two are 1 year apart. The name occurs once on the register, and a passenger born in Poland landing at Los Angeles 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.
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visas Chiune Sugihara issued at the Japanese consulate in Kaunas, Lithuania, in 1940.
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