Litewka Leja

Litewka Leja received transit visa no. 1692 at the Japanese consulate in Kaunas on 13 August 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 #2043

The journey

Reached Japan; aided by the Polish ambassador Tadeusz Romer; registered in Kobe for USA.

Where this comes from

• 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 25 Jan 1941 (line 1692)
• Manifest of alien passengers, SS Nitta Maru, sailing from Yokohama 20 March 1941, arrived San Francisco 1 April 1941 (US National Archives, M1410, film 368; read on FamilySearch's copy)
  She arrived at San Francisco with her husband on 1 April 1941 aboard the Nitta Maru from Yokohama, on a visitor's visa issued at Yokohama on 18 March 1941; the manifest gives her birthplace as Moscow and the couple's destination as New York (manifest held by the US National Archives, read on FamilySearch's copy).

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