Laura Kirsch

Laura Kirsch received transit visa no. 141 at the Japanese consulate in Kaunas on 29 July 1940. Aged 50 in 1940.

What the register records

Nationality as recorded

Polnisch

Age in 1940

50

Family, per the Kitade-Bluman list

wife of #142

The journey

Reached Japan; aided by the Polish ambassador Tadeusz Romer; registered in Kobe for Canada.

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.82, age 50, b. Cracow
• hunt/familysearch: US arrival manifest: Lejb Kirsch, Seattle, 1941
  "Seattle Passenger Lists", FamilySearch, entry for Laura Kirsch, 1941. Ship: Hikawa Maru. Matched from the Hikawa Maru's Polish-born passenger list (162 people, 35 matched). Register No.141 'Laura Kirsch' records age 50; the manifest gives born 1891, arriving 1941.
• 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 Jan 1941 (line 141)