Sawicka Itta

Sawicka Itta received transit visa no. 1304 at the Japanese consulate in Kaunas on 6 August 1940. Aged 35 in 1940.

What the register records

Nationality as recorded

Polnisch

Age in 1940

35

Family, per the Kitade-Bluman list

wife of #1305

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 an Ita Sawicka at entry 5230, born 1910 at Włocławek, who had come from Włocławek. It is shown as a lead, not as this person: born 1910 against the register's age of 35; Etta Sawicka at entry 5667, beside her husband Aron at 5666, is the better match.
• 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 5667, Etta Sawicka, born 1907 at Łódź, who had come from Włocławek; the year agrees with the register's age.
• 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 599 of the Kobe Jewish Community's refugee register: aged 36, born at Konstantynow, who travelled from Vilnius.
• 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 13 Feb 1941 (line 1304)
• Manifest of alien passengers, SS Asama Maru, sailing from Kobe, February 18, 1941, arrived San Francisco date not read (a note on the sheet reads "Adm. ... March 7, 1941") (US National Archives, M1410, film 368; read on FamilySearch's co…
  The same list shows Ita Sawicki, born in Konstantynów, travelling with her husband from Kobe on the Asama Maru in February 1941.

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