Margarete Labensky

Margarete Labensky received transit visa no. 117 at the Japanese consulate in Kaunas on 29 July 1940. Aged 33 in 1940.

What the register records

Nationality as recorded

Polnisch

Age in 1940

33

Family, per the Kitade-Bluman list

wife of #115

The journey

Reached Japan; reached Shanghai; registered in Kobe for South America.

Where this comes from

• 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 976); the names closely match this register line — approved by the owner's review, 19 Aug 2026 — the ledger reads: Labenska Margarete Louise, born 24 November 1907, married; registered 24 May 1941; 183/10 Avenue du Roi Albert; Tokyo-issued passport of 23 May 1941 — found on reading the page (with Teodor Labensky, No.115, entry 975). — the ledger reads: Labenska Louise Margarete, EVANGELICAL, born 24 November 1907 Rozenberg, married; registered 14 February 1941 on a certificate (L-3) issued by the Polish Legation in Kaunas 4 January 1940 (cross-referenced 'vide No.1041').
• 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 1041); the names closely match this register line — approved by the owner's review, 19 Aug 2026 — the ledger reads: Labenska Margarete Louise, born 24 November 1907, married; registered 24 May 1941; 183/10 Avenue du Roi Albert; Tokyo-issued passport of 23 May 1941 — found on reading the page (with Teodor Labensky, No.115, entry 975). — the ledger reads: Labenska Louise Margarete, EVANGELICAL, born 24 November 1907 Rozenberg, married; registered 14 February 1941 on a certificate (L-3) issued by the Polish Legation in Kaunas 4 January 1940 (cross-referenced 'vide No.1041').
• 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 1041) — found on reading the ledger page itself — the ledger reads: Labenska Margarete Louise, born 24 November 1907, married; registered 24 May 1941; 183/10 Avenue du Roi Albert; Tokyo-issued passport of 23 May 1941 — found on reading the page (with Teodor Labensky, No.115, entry 975). — the ledger reads: Labenska Louise Margarete, EVANGELICAL, born 24 November 1907 Rozenberg, married; registered 14 February 1941 on a certificate (L-3) issued by the Polish Legation in Kaunas 4 January 1940 (cross-referenced 'vide No.1041').
• Names and addresses of Polish refugees registered with UNRRA wishing to return to Poland, Shanghai, 1946 (United Nations Relief and Rehabilit… — United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, Holocaust Survivors and Victims Database, list 48688
  In 1946 the United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration's Shanghai office drew up a one-page list of the Polish refugees registered with it who wished to be repatriated to Poland; the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum has indexed its 37 names. Margarete Labenska is on it with Teodor Labenski, whom the register records as her husband; both lines are noted as having reached Shanghai.

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