Nowomiast Mina

Nowomiast Mina received transit visa no. 1381 at the Japanese consulate in Kaunas on 7 August 1940. Aged 25 in 1940.

What the register records

Nationality as recorded

Polnisch

Age in 1940

25

Family, per the Kitade-Bluman list

wife of #1380

The journey

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

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 1522) — found on reading the ledger page itself — LEDGER ENTRY READ: Nowomiast Mina, born 6 January 1915 Warsaw — named as wife on her husband Stanislaw Nowomiast's Shanghai entry 1522 (December 1941, 1248 Rue Lafayette).
• United States National Archives, Record Group 84 — Records of the Foreign Service Posts of the Department of State: 'Classified Visa Files, 1946-1951', U.S. Consulate General, Shanghai (NAID 2123997; HMS/MLR entry UD 2335-A; accession NN…
  Named with her husband in the applicant list for the Shanghai visa files as “Nowomiast, Mojzesz and Nina”. The register gives her as Mina; the compiled list has her as the wife of No. 1380, aged 25, who reached Japan and then Shanghai.