Marja Glass

Marja Glass received transit visa no. 167 at the Japanese consulate in Kaunas on 29 July 1940. Aged 24 in 1940.

What the register records

Nationality as recorded

Polnisch

Age in 1940

24

Family, per the Kitade-Bluman list

wife of #166

The journey

Reached Japan; registered in Kobe for Australia.

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…
  165/226, 24, Warsaw
• 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 1111) — the consulate's register of Polish citizens who reached the city, 1934-1943 — LEDGER ENTRY READ: Glass Maryla, born 1917 Warsaw, married; 1363 Rue Lafayette apt 74; Warsaw passport of 17 July 1938 extended by the Embassy in Tokyo 14 March 1941.
• 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 3 Feb 1941 (line 167)
• Tadeusz Romer papers, Library and Archives Canada, MG 31 D 68, vol. 2 (microfilm reel C-10451, frame 1088): 'Lista obywateli polskich ewakuowanych z Dalekiego Wschodu', page 2 — Kamakura Maru, Shanghai 16 August 1942: officials (the Rome…
  Named on the Polish Embassy's list of Polish citizens evacuated from the Far East on the exchange ship s/s Kamakura Maru, Shanghai, 16 August 1942 — one of the 41 'civilian refugees' for whom Ambassador Romer obtained places (evacuee no. 69, 'GLASS Maryla'); the party sailed with Romer to Lourenco Marques and most went on to England
• Library and Archives Canada, Tadeusz Romer fonds, MG 31 D 68, reel C-10452, frame 625, via Canadiana Heritage — a Polish Embassy list of 41 Polish refugees, filed among Romer's Shanghai-period papers — page 1, entries 1-10 (Bajer, Bram a…
  On the Polish Embassy's list of 41 Polish refugees (Romer's Shanghai-period papers) (Romer fonds, reel C-10452, frame 625, entry 9): GLASS Maryla, born 1917; passport 4977/38, W-wa Płn. 13.7.38, do 8.12.43 — Holds an Australian visa issued by the British Consulate in Tokyo 27.6.41 No. 27546 for 2 months. Failing Australia, wishes to go to Canada, where she has her father's family.