Buchman Sara

Buchman Sara received transit visa no. 1160 at the Japanese consulate in Kaunas on 5 August 1940. Aged 27 in 1940.

What the register records

Nationality as recorded

Polnisch

Age in 1940

27

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 372, Sara Buchman, born 1913 at Brześć, who came from Brześć; the year agrees with the register's compiled age.

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