Rafal Szereszowski

Rafal Szereszowski received transit visa no. 1793 at the Japanese consulate in Kaunas on 16 August 1940. The register records banker, aged 72.

What the register records

Nationality as recorded

Polnisch

Age in 1940

72

Occupation

Banker

Family, per the Kitade-Bluman list

husband of #1792

The journey

Reached Japan; registered in Kobe for USA.

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…
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• List or manifest of alien passengers for the United States, S.S. Tatuta Maru, sailed from Yokohama 15 May 1941, arrived San Francisco 29 May 1941 — one sheet of fourteen names (the Chigalov, Dreszer, Goldberg, Grossman, Houston, Koch and…
  The manifest of the S.S. Tatuta Maru, which sailed from Yokohama on 15 May 1941 and reached San Francisco on 29 May, lists Rafal Szereszowski, aged 72, married, and his wife Tauba Braina, 70, Polish, travelling together; the sheet's birthplaces for the pair are Warsaw and Brześć. The ages are exactly those of the register's compiled line (72 in 1940), so the entry is his. The lead came from David Rosen, who found the sailing in September 2026; the sheet was read on FamilySearch on 19 September 2026 (United States National Archives, microfilm M1410, roll 370).
• "California, San Francisco, Passenger Lists, 1893-1953", FamilySearch — index entry for Rafal Szereszowski, 1941: born about 1869, Poland. Digitised from NARA microfilm publication M1410 (passenger lists of vessels arriving at San Franci…
  FamilySearch's index of the San Francisco passenger lists, read by the archive on 20 September 2026, has Rafal Szereszowski, born about 1869 in Poland, arriving at San Francisco in 1941. The register's compiled line gives 1868, and the two are 1 year apart. The name occurs once on the register, and a Polish-born passenger landing at San Francisco 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.