Rapoport Ewa

Rapoport Ewa received transit visa no. 1530 at the Japanese consulate in Kaunas on 7 August 1940. Aged 38 in 1940.

What the register records

Nationality as recorded

Polnisch

Age in 1940

38

Family, per the Kitade-Bluman list

wife of #1528

The journey

Reached Japan; aided by the Polish ambassador Tadeusz Romer; 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.554, age 40, b. Warsaw, 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 14 Feb 1941 (line 1530)
• M.S. Hie Maru, Kobe 4 May – Yokohama 7 May – Seattle 18 May 1941, sheet 2 of 11
  Hie Maru passenger no. 39; 39y 8m; Housewife; b. Warsaw, Poland; last residence Vilnus, Lithuania; US visa Q.I.V.1841, issued Yokohama, 5-2-1941; to N.Y., N.Y.; joining Uncle-in-law, Samuel Finkielstein, 91 Payson Ave. N.Y.; nearest relative left behind: No relative, 8 Tilto, Vilnus