Zusman Epsztejn
Visa no. 1806 · Kaunas, 16 August 1940
Zusman Epsztejn received transit visa no. 1806 at the Japanese consulate in Kaunas on 16 August 1940. Aged 39 in 1940.
What the register records Nationality as recorded Polnisch Age in 1940 39
The journey Reached Japan; registered in Kobe for South Africa?.
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… 1147; 1901; Baranowicze US arrival manifest: Zusman Epstein, Seattle, 1940 "Seattle Passenger Lists", FamilySearch, entry for Zusman Epstein, 1940. Ship: Hikawa Maru. Matched from the Hikawa Maru's Polish-born passenger list (162 people, 35 matched). Register No.1806 'Zusman Epsztejn' records age 39; the manifest gives born 1901, arriving 1940.
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Zusman Epsztejn 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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