Mendelsund Szidra

Mendelsund Szidra received transit visa no. 1058 at the Japanese consulate in Kaunas on 5 August 1940. The register records teacher, aged 25.

What the register records

Nationality as recorded

Polnisch

Age in 1940

25

Occupation

Teacher

Family, per the Kitade-Bluman list

wife of #1059

The journey

Reached Japan; aided by the Polish ambassador Tadeusz Romer; 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…
  The 1940 Vilna refugee list has, at entry 3780, Szyfra Mendelsond, born 1915 at Warsaw, who had come from Warsaw; the year agrees with the register's age and Warsaw agrees with the archive's other records.
• The JEWCOM register — the refugee register kept by the Refugee Committee of the Jewish Community of Kobe (Ashkenazim) at No. 6 Yamamoto-dori, 1-chome, whose cable address was 'JEWCOM Kobe'. Eighty-four pages on the committee's own printe…
  Entry 460 of the Kobe Jewish Community's refugee register: aged 26, born at Warsaw, a teacher, who travelled from Vilnius; left for San Francisco.
• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, Holocaust Survivors and Victims Database — the Flight and Rescue electronic dataset (source 20725): USHMM's own transcription of the Kaunas register, 2,140 persons with citizenship, visa type, iss…
  USHMM Flight and Rescue dataset: arrived in Japan 25 Feb 1941 (line 1058)
• "California, San Francisco, Passenger Lists, 1893-1953", FamilySearch — index entry for Szyfra nee Krystal Mendelsund, 1941: born about 1915, Poland. Digitised from NARA microfilm publication M1410 (passenger lists of vessels arriving at…
  FamilySearch's index of the San Francisco passenger lists, read by the archive on 20 September 2026, has Szyfra nee Krystal Mendelsund, born about 1915 in Poland, arriving at San Francisco in 1941. The register's compiled line gives 1915, and the two agree. 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.
• Manifest of alien passengers, SS Tatuta Maru, sailing from Yokohama 6 March 1941, arrived San Francisco 20 March 1941 (US National Archives, M1410, film 368; read on FamilySearch's copy)
  She came with her husband on the Tatuta Maru, landing at San Francisco on 20 March 1941 on a visitor's visa issued in Moscow; the manifest gives her name as Szyfra Mendelsund and her birthplace as Warsaw (manifest held by the US National Archives, read on FamilySearch's copy).

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