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 — the ledger reads: 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.
• Yad Vashem Archives, Jerusalem — the card file of Jewish refugees from Poland who found refuge in various countries, 1939–1941
  Yad Vashem's card file of Jewish refugees from Poland who found refuge in various countries, 1939–1941, has a card for Chaja Potasznik, who was in Wilno during the war. The archive attaches it under its rule of 19 September 2026: the card file is a record of the refugees in Wilno, where the road through Sugihara's visas began; the full name occurs once on the register; and the card places the person in Wilno in 1939–41, on the road to Sugihara's visas. Credit: Yad Vashem Archives.

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