Trunk Dada

Trunk Dada received transit visa no. 1713 at the Japanese consulate in Kaunas on 14 August 1940. The register records waiter, aged 50.

What the register records

Nationality as recorded

Polnisch

Age in 1940

50

Occupation

Waiter

Family, per the Kitade-Bluman list

wife of #1714

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 Feb 1941 (line 1713)
• "California, San Francisco, Passenger Lists, 1893-1953", FamilySearch — index entry for Doba Dacha Trunk, 1941: born about 1891, Poland. Digitised from NARA microfilm publication M1410 (passenger lists of vessels arriving at San Francisc…
  FamilySearch's index of the San Francisco passenger lists, read by the archive on 20 September 2026, has Doba Dacha Trunk, born about 1891 in Poland, arriving at San Francisco in 1941. The register's compiled line gives 1890, and the two are 1 year apart. 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.
• 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…
  Doba Trunk, born in Warsaw in 1889, is entered on the 1940 list of Polish Jewish refugees in Vilnius. (JDC Archives, List of Refugees, Vilna, 1940.)
• New York City death certificates, 1944–1946 (Municipal Archives of the City of New York; indexed from the certificates on FamilySearch, "New York, New York City Municipal Deaths, 1795–1949")
  Her death certificate closes her story: Doba Dacha Trunk died in Manhattan on 6 December 1944, aged 55, and was buried the next day at New Mount Carmel. The certificate, held by the Municipal Archives of the City of New York and indexed from the document by FamilySearch, gives her husband as Chel, the register's Chil Trunk on the line beside hers, her birth about 1889 in Poland, the year the Vilna refugee list gives, and her parents as Moses and Etta née Wacks. Read in the index, October 2026.
• Manifest of alien passengers, SS Tatuta Maru, sailing from Yokohama 6 March 1941, arrived San Francisco 20 March 1941 (US National Archives, M1410, film 368; read on FamilySearch's copy)
  The National Archives' passenger list of the Tatuta Maru (FamilySearch's copy) records Doba Dacha Trunk, 50, born in Warsaw, sailing from Yokohama in March 1941 with her husband Chil-Szaja Trunk on a US transit visa issued in Moscow, bound for New York. The age is exactly the one the register's compilers recorded, and her husband is the register's next entry; the compilers give her trade as waiter, the sheet as housewife.

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