Wysokier Estera

Wysokier Estera received transit visa no. 1309 at the Japanese consulate in Kaunas on 6 August 1940. Aged 30 in 1940.

What the register records

Nationality as recorded

Polnisch

Age in 1940

30

Family, per the Kitade-Bluman list

wife of #1308

The journey

Reached Japan; reached Shanghai; registered in Kobe for Palestine.

Where this comes from

• 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…
  no.721, age 31, arr 25.2 Kovno
• Tadeusz Romer papers, Library and Archives Canada, MG 31 D 68, vol. 2 (microfilm reel C-10451, frame 1089): 'Lista obywateli polskich ewakuowanych z Dalekiego Wschodu', page 3 — civilian refugees Nos. 93-101: Rathaus, Siemiatycki, Waldbe…
  Named on the Polish Embassy's list of Polish citizens evacuated from the Far East on the exchange ship s/s Kamakura Maru, Shanghai, 16 August 1942 — one of the 41 'civilian refugees' for whom Ambassador Romer obtained places (evacuee no. 99, 'WYSOKIER Estera (wife of Rabbi Szymon, evacuees 98-99)'); the party sailed with Romer to Lourenco Marques and most went on to England
• Library and Archives Canada, Tadeusz Romer fonds, MG 31 D 68, reel C-10452, frame 628, via Canadiana Heritage — the same list, page 4, entries 33-41 (Rathaus, Rabbi Siemiatycki, the Waldberg sisters, Wallach, Rabbi Wysokier and wife, Zau…
  On the Polish Embassy's list of 41 Polish refugees (Romer's Shanghai-period papers) (Romer fonds, reel C-10452, frame 628, entry 39): WYSOKIER Estera, born 1910; passport joint passport with husband — Vide husband ad poz. 38.