Hirszson Rebeka

Hirszson Rebeka received transit visa no. 1489 at the Japanese consulate in Kaunas on 7 August 1940. Aged 28 in 1940.

What the register records

Nationality as recorded

Polnisch

Age in 1940

28

Family, per the Kitade-Bluman list

wife of #1582

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…
  No 281; age 29; arr 25.2.41; from Vilno
• 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 25 Feb 1941 (line 1489)
• 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 1122) — found on reading the ledger page itself — LEDGER ENTRY READ: Hirszson Rebeka, born 15 March 1912 — entered on the Warsaw passport of her husband Jozef Hirszson (merchant, b. 1888 Kuldiga, Latvia; entry 1122, registered 11 September 1941, 85 Tunsin Road), which the British Legation in Kaunas extended 6 February and 8 August 1940 (H-37, H-27/2) and the Embassy in Tokyo 23 August 1941.