Rejzla Gostynska

Rejzla Gostynska received transit visa no. 143 at the Japanese consulate in Kaunas on 29 July 1940. Aged 33 in 1940.

What the register records

Nationality as recorded

Polnisch

Age in 1940

33

Family, per the Kitade-Bluman list

wife of #144

The journey

Reached Japan; registered in Kobe for Australia.

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…
  The Kobe Jewish Community's refugee register: aged 33, born at Lublin, who arrived in Japan from Vilnius on 3 February 1941 with Hilel Gostynski.
• Sydney Jewish Museum Collection, M2019/031 — the papers of Henryk Gostin (Gostynski): catalogue records with a biographical note (born 15 July 1908 Tomaszów Mazowiecki; Sugihara visa at Wilno; Tsuruga 1941; left Kobe 3 July 1941, arrived…
  The Sydney Jewish Museum's catalogue of her husband's papers names her as Rosalie (Rozalja) Zuinta Gostin, née Roth; the family sailed from Kobe on 3 July 1941 and reached Sydney on 9 August 1941, and lived in Bellevue Hill. The register's Rajzla Gostynska, 33, wife of No. 144, is Rosalie.
• JDC Archives, New York, collection AR 33/44 file 53 (the Jewish Community of Kobe's returns to the JDC, 1941; Set I, item 00761) — Set I pp. 5–7 — "List… — "List of persons who left Japan for Shanghai in the month of July 1941", Nos. 1–15
  She left Kobe on the Kasima Maru on 6 July 1941, bound for Australia (the Jewish Community of Kobe's list of departures, July 1941 (JDC Archives, AR 33/44 file 53)). The list reads: "″ Rejzla". (Kasima Maru, Kobe, 6 July 1941, destination Australia.)

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