Poznanska Estera

Poznanska Estera received transit visa no. 1617 at the Japanese consulate in Kaunas on 12 August 1940. Aged 32 in 1940.

What the register records

Nationality as recorded

Polnisch

Age in 1940

32

Family, per the Kitade-Bluman list

wife of #203

The journey

Reached Japan; reached Shanghai.

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 1015) — found on reading the ledger page itself — the ledger reads: Poznanska Estera Rojza, born 23 January 1908 — named as wife on her husband Mordka Poznanski's Shanghai entry 1015 (May 1941, 50 Ward Road).
• JDC Archives, New York, collection AR 33/44 file 53 (the Jewish Community of Kobe's returns to the JDC, 1941; Set I, item 00761) — Set I pp. 24–32 — April 1941 (and a May continuation sheet)
  She left Japan for Shanghai on the Kobe Maru, from Kobe, 5 April 1941 (the Jewish Community of Kobe's list of refugees who left Japan for Shanghai, April 1941 (JDC Archives, AR 33/44 file 53)). The list reads: "″ Estera". (Kobe Maru, Kobe, 5 April 1941, Shanghai.)

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