Paulina Haftka

Paulina Haftka received transit visa no. 1302 at the Japanese consulate in Kaunas on 6 August 1940. Aged 28 in 1940.

What the register records

Nationality as recorded

Polnisch

Age in 1940

28

Family, per the Kitade-Bluman list

wife of #1303

The journey

Reached Japan; reached Shanghai; 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…
  2369; 1912
• 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 3 Feb 1941 (line 1302)
• JDC Archives, New York, collection AR33-44 file 53 — “List of persons who left Japan for Shanghai and Harbin in the month of May 1941”, compiled by the Jewish Community of Kobe (Ashkenazim) for the American Jewish Joint Distribution Comm…
  Named in the Kobe committee's list of persons who left Japan for Shanghai and Harbin in the month of May 1941 (JDC Archives). Haftka Paulina, Polish, sailed from Kobe for Shanghai on 24 May 1941 aboard the Kamakura Maru with Samuel. The pair corroborate each other twice over: consecutive numbers on this register, consecutive numbers on the Vilna relief list, and one arrival in Japan on 3 February 1941.