Elsa Kerner

Elsa Kerner received transit visa no. 148 at the Japanese consulate in Kaunas on 29 July 1940. Aged 29 in 1940.

What the register records

Nationality as recorded

Polnisch

Age in 1940

29

Family, per the Kitade-Bluman list

wife of #149

The journey

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

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 241 of the Kobe Jewish Community's refugee register: aged 30, born at Warsaw, who travelled from Vilnius.
• 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 242 of the Kobe Jewish Community's refugee register: aged 6, who travelled from Vilnius.
• 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 24 Feb 1941 (line 148)

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