Wanda Glass

Wanda Glass received transit visa no. 165 at the Japanese consulate in Kaunas on 29 July 1940. Aged 27 in 1940.

Documents

Click a document to see it larger.

What the register records

Nationality as recorded

Polnisch

Age in 1940

27

Family, per the Kitade-Bluman list

wife of #160, child Andrej (4)

The journey

Reached Japan; registered in Kobe for Dominican Republic.

Travelled with, and never given a number

• Andrej — child, aged 4

The register recorded visa holders. It did not reliably record the wives and children who travelled on somebody else’s visa, so these people have no entry of their own and cannot be searched for. Where the archive has recovered a name, it is here.

Where this comes from

• List of Refugees, Vilna, 1940 — JDC Archives, New York, collection AR 33/44, file 00876. The contemporary register of Polish Jewish refugees in Lithuania, running to more than nine thousand numbered entries; the fullest independent check…
  The 1940 Vilna refugee list has, at entry 1724, Wanda Glas, born 1912 at Warszawa, who came from Warszawa; the year agrees with the register's compiled age, and her husband Marjan, also on the register (No. 160), appears a few lines above her on the list.
• 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…
  Entry 232 of the Kobe Jewish Community's refugee register: aged 29, born at Warsaw.
• 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 13 Feb 1941 (line 165)
• Museum of Jewish Heritage — A Living Memorial to the Holocaust, New York: Object Description Report and master files supplied to this archive by the Collections department, 26 August 2026, in answer to its enquiry of 18 August. OBJECT 29…
  WANDA GLASS, née Mosewicka — daughter of Helena Mosewicka (No. 164), wife of Marian Glass (No. 160), and the person who gave her mother's travel document to the Museum of Jewish Heritage, where it is object 298.96. The register's note against this line reads 'wife of #160, child Andrej (4)'; the museum's catalogue names that child ANDREW and dates his birth to 1934, the year of her marriage. Three generations of one family on three adjacent lines of the register — and the child, as so often, on none of them.
• "California, San Francisco, Passenger Lists, 1893-1953", FamilySearch — index entry for Wanda Glass, 1941: born about 1913, Poland. Digitised from NARA microfilm publication M1410 (passenger lists of vessels arriving at San Francisco). R…
  FamilySearch's index of the San Francisco passenger lists, read by the archive on 20 September 2026, has Wanda Glass, born about 1913 in Poland, arriving at San Francisco in 1941. The register's compiled line gives 1913, and the two agree. The name occurs once on the register, and a Polish-born passenger landing at San Francisco in 1941 fits the route through Japan, so the entry is taken as this person's under the archive's rule of 19 September 2026 for records from the route.
• 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… — "List of refugees who left Japan to places other than Shanghai in the month of May 1941", Nos. 1–321
  She left Yokohama on the Kamakura Maru, end of May 1941, bound for San Domingo (the Jewish Community of Kobe's list of departures, May 1941 (JDC Archives, AR 33/44 file 53)). The list reads: "″ Wanda". (Kamakura Maru, Yokohama, end of May 1941.)
• MJH eMuseum object 299.96 (Gift of Wanda Glass): Permit for Stay in Japan for the Glass Family, full-resolution scan 1/1 (media 2695)
• From the same donation as Helena Mosewicka's certificate (1996.298), given by Wanda Glass. It is the family's Japanese residence paper: 'PERMIT FOR STAY IN JAPAN' No. 3250 of the Governor of Hyogo Prefecture, granted 12 March 1941 and va…

×