Mendelsund Szidra
Visa no. 1058 · Kaunas, 5 August 1940
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… 3780, Warszawa, 1915 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…#460, 26, b. Warsaw, Teacher, from Vilno, left S.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) Open this entry in the full register →
Mendelsund Szidra 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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