Holcberg Sura Dwojra

Holcberg Sura Dwojra received transit visa no. 1036 at the Japanese consulate in Kaunas on 5 August 1940. Aged 32 in 1940.

What the register records

Nationality as recorded

Polnisch

Age in 1940

32

Family, per the Kitade-Bluman list

wife of #1038

The journey

Reached Japan; reached Shanghai.

Where this comes from

• JDC Shanghai migration file: Sura Dwojra
  JDC Archives, New York collection AR3344, 'Complete Shanghai Migration Files' (NY_AR3344_00014), page 163: Sura Dwojra, file no. 2312. Match: register No.1036 'Golcberg ura Dwojra' (repaired: Holcberg Sura Dwojra), and the register independently records this person as reaching Shanghai. Both name pa
• The Shanghai Ledger — register of Polish citizens kept by the Consulate of Poland in Shanghai, 1934-1943 (original at the Archives of the Polish Ministry of Foreign Affairs, ref. 43/2003; digitised by the Library of Congress; indexed as…
  Registered with the Polish Consulate in Shanghai (ledger entry 1086) — found on reading the ledger page itself — the ledger reads: Holcberg Sura-Dwojra, born 27 September 1907 Sobkow — named as wife on her husband Hilel Holcberg's Shanghai entry 1086 (August 1941, 144 Wayside Road).
• "California, San Francisco, Passenger Lists, 1893-1953", FamilySearch — index entry for Suradwojra Holcberg, 1947: born about 1907, Polish. Digitised from NARA microfilm publication M1410 (passenger lists of vessels arriving at San Franc…
  FamilySearch's index of the San Francisco passenger lists, read by the archive on 20 September 2026, has Suradwojra Holcberg, born about 1907 in Polish, arriving at San Francisco in 1947 on the Marine Adder. The register's compiled line gives 1908, and the two are 1 year apart, and the name occurs once on the register. The ship's manifest heading says she sailed from Shanghai, and a passenger born in Poland landing at San Francisco in 1947 from Shanghai is the route's end: the refugees who waited out the war there. So the entry is taken as this person's under the archive's rule of 19 September 2026 for records from the route. The sheet is NARA microfilm publication M1410, film 394, image 766, read by the archive on 20 September 2026.
• Yad Vashem Archives, Jerusalem — the card file of Jewish refugees from Poland who found refuge in various countries, 1939–1941
  Yad Vashem's card file of Jewish refugees from Poland who found refuge in various countries, 1939–1941, has a card for Sura Holcberg, married to Hillel, who was in Wilno during the war; her name and her husband's agree with this register line. Credit: Yad Vashem Archives.

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