Laura Kirsch

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

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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…
  Entry 82 of the Kobe Jewish Community's refugee register: aged 50, born at Cracow.
• 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)
• "Washington, King, Seattle, Passenger Lists, 1890-1957", FamilySearch — index entry for Laura Kirsch, 1941: born about 1891, Poland. Digitised from NARA microfilm publication M1383 (passenger and crew lists of vessels arriving at Seattle…
  FamilySearch's index of the Seattle passenger lists, read by the archive on 20 September 2026, has Laura Kirsch, born about 1891 in Poland, arriving at Seattle in 1941. The register's compiled line gives 1890, and the two are 1 year apart. The name occurs once on the register, and a Polish-born passenger landing at Seattle in 1941 fits the route through Japan, so the entry is taken as this person's under the archive's rule of 19 September 2026 for records from the route.
• JDC Archives, New York, collection AR 33/44 file 53 (the Jewish Community of Ko… — "List of departures for the month of June, 1941" (Jewish Community of Kobe, Migration Office; covering letter p. 12, Kobe, July 1941, HICEM-funded tickets)
  She left Yokohama on the Hikawa Maru on 5 June 1941, bound for Vancouver (the Jewish Community of Kobe's list of departures, June 1941 (JDC Archives, AR 33/44 file 53)). The list reads: Hikawa Maru sheet: "(as above) "& wife Laura"". (Hikawa Maru, Yokohama, 5 June 1941, Vancouver.)
• A ship, arriving at Seattle in 1941: list or manifest of alien passengers, the sheet that names Zygmumt Glass — US National Archives, Record Group 85 (Immigration and Naturalization Service), Passenger and Crew Lists of Vessels Arriving…
• Arriving at Seattle: the continuation sheet, with the relatives named and the destinations, for the sheet that names Zygmunt Glass — US National Archives, Record Group 85 (Immigration and Naturalization Service), Passenger and Crew Lists…

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