Potasznik Chaja

Potasznik Chaja received transit visa no. 1484 at the Japanese consulate in Kaunas on 7 August 1940. The register records teacher - beth jacob, aged 25.

What the register records

Nationality as recorded

Polnisch

Age in 1940

25

Occupation

Teacher - Beth Jacob

Family, per the Kitade-Bluman list

wife of #1485

The journey

Reached Japan; reached Shanghai; aided by the Polish ambassador Tadeusz Romer; registered in Kobe for USA.

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 1488) — the consulate's register of Polish citizens who reached the city, 1934-1943 — LEDGER ENTRY READ: Potasznik Chaja, BOOK-KEEPER, born 1915 Wolozyn, single; 912/10 Seward Road — the same address as Mendel Potasznik (entry 1441, No.1485), evidently her brother; registered 13 December 1941 on a passport issued by the Shanghai consulate itself (P-89, 3 December 1941) — found on reading the page.