Trunk Chil Szaja

Trunk Chil Szaja received transit visa no. 1714 at the Japanese consulate in Kaunas on 14 August 1940. The register records writer, aged 52.

What the register records

Nationality as recorded

Polnisch

Age in 1940

52

Occupation

Writer

Family, per the Kitade-Bluman list

husband of #1713

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 1714)