Ewa Altminc

Ewa Altminc received transit visa no. 156 at the Japanese consulate in Kaunas on 29 July 1940. Aged 13 in 1940.

What the register records

Nationality as recorded

Polnisch

Age in 1940

13

Family, per the Kitade-Bluman list

daughter of #157

The journey

Reached Japan; reached Shanghai.

Where this comes from

• The Kobe relatives list — refugees at Kobe in 1941 recorded with their relatives abroad. Seventy-six pages in numbered sheets (LIST No. 7, No. 16 and others), each line giving a name, age, birthplace, occupation and citizenship, and then…
  Entry 9 of the Kobe community's list of refugees and their relatives abroad: aged 14.
• 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 1340) — found on reading the ledger page itself — the ledger reads: Altminc Ewa, born 30 March 1927 Warsaw — named as daughter on her father Jozef Altminc's Shanghai entry 1340 (December 1941, 925 Avenue Joffre).
• World Jewish Congress, London: 'List of refugees in Shanghai', received in London 11 June 1946, 10 sheets, no list of nationalities — sheet 3, headed 'List of Jewish refugees registered with HIAS Shanghai, China, address c/o HIAS, Shangh…
  Sheet 3 of the World Jewish Congress's copy of the HIAS Shanghai list (received in London 11 June 1946; Arolsen Archives 3.1.1.3, DocID 78796289, read online 18 September 2026) lists 'Altminc Eva, 1927, Warschau' with her parents Jos. (1898) and Laja Dw. (1903). The year is that of the Polish Consulate's Shanghai ledger (Ewa, born 30 March 1927 at Warsaw), so the line is hers.
• 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 Ewa Altminc, 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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