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.

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
• 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.