Borkiensztajn Terca

Borkiensztajn Terca received transit visa no. 1379 at the Japanese consulate in Kaunas on 7 August 1940. Aged 46 in 1940.

What the register records

Nationality as recorded

Polnisch

Age in 1940

46

Family, per the Kitade-Bluman list

daughter Genia (17)

The journey

Reached Shanghai; destination given in the Kitade-Bluman list: Brazil.

Travelled with, and never given a number

• Genia — daughter, aged 17

The register recorded visa holders. It did not reliably record the wives and children who travelled on somebody else’s visa, so these people have no entry of their own and cannot be searched for. Where the archive has recovered a name, it is here.

Where this comes from

• 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 1379)
• "California, San Francisco, Passenger Lists, 1893-1953", FamilySearch — index entry for Terca Borkensztejn, 1947: born about 1895, Poland. Digitised from NARA microfilm publication M1410 (passenger lists of vessels arriving at San Franci…
  FamilySearch's index of the San Francisco passenger lists, read by the archive on 20 September 2026, has Terca Borkensztejn, born about 1895 in Poland, arriving at San Francisco in 1947 on the General M. C. Meigs. The register's compiled line gives 1894, and the two are 1 year apart, and the name occurs once on the register. The ship's manifest heading says she sailed from Shanghai, and a passenger born in Poland landing at San Francisco in 1947 from Shanghai is the route's end: the refugees who waited out the war there. So the entry is taken as this person's under the archive's rule of 19 September 2026 for records from the route. The sheet is NARA microfilm publication M1410, film 386, image 321, read by the archive on 20 September 2026.
• La-karov ve-la-rachok, 21 March 1946 — the Far Eastern Palestine Committee's list of Jewish refugees in Shanghai (National Library of Israel, Historical Jewish Press)
  The Far Eastern Palestine Committee's list of Jewish refugees in Shanghai, printed by the Jewish Agency Search Bureau's bulletin La-karov ve-la-rachok on 21 March 1946, lists Terca Borkensztejn: born 1894 at Warsaw, arrived in 1941 from Wilna; the year agrees with the age the register gives, the name occurs once on the register, and an arrival in Shanghai in 1941 from Lithuania is the Sugihara route itself, so the archive attaches it under its rule of 19 September 2026 (National Library of Israel, Historical Jewish Press).
• 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…
  The Kobe Jewish Community's refugee register lists Terca Borkensztein, aged 47, born at Warsaw, who reached Japan on 3 February 1941, with her daughter Genia, aged 18, on the next line. Sugihara's ledger lost the first letter of her given name; the register has it in full.
• 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 533, Borkensztejn Terca, born 1894 at Warsaw, who came from Warsaw; the year agrees with the age the register gives, and the town with what the archive already holds.

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