Waldberg Brandla

Waldberg Brandla received transit visa no. 1800 at the Japanese consulate in Kaunas on 16 August 1940. The register records x-ray technician, aged 40.

What the register records

Nationality as recorded

Polnisch

Age in 1940

40

Occupation

X-Ray Technician

The journey

Reached Japan; reached Shanghai.

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…
  #695, age 41, b. Lodz, rentgen., arr. 3.2, no.432
• 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 1214); the names closely match this register line — approved by the owner's review, 19 Aug 2026 — LEDGER ENTRY READ: Waldberg Brandla, of private means, born 18 November 1900; with Maria Waldberg; Tokyo-issued passport of 8 August 1941 — found on reading the page.
• 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 1800)
• Tadeusz Romer papers, Library and Archives Canada, MG 31 D 68, vol. 2 (microfilm reel C-10451, frame 1089): 'Lista obywateli polskich ewakuowanych z Dalekiego Wschodu', page 3 — civilian refugees Nos. 93-101: Rathaus, Siemiatycki, Waldbe…
  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. 95, 'WALDBERG Brandla z siostra Maria (evacuees 95-96)'); 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 628, via Canadiana Heritage — the same list, page 4, entries 33-41 (Rathaus, Rabbi Siemiatycki, the Waldberg sisters, Wallach, Rabbi Wysokier and wife, Zau…
  On the Polish Embassy's list of 41 Polish refugees (Romer's Shanghai-period papers) (Romer fonds, reel C-10452, frame 628, entry 35): WALDBERG Brandla, technik rentgen. (X-ray technician), born 1900; passport 390/729/31/VIII/41, Tokio 8.8.41, do 8.12.1943 — No visa. Wishes to leave together with her sister (36) for Switzerland to their sister, or to the USA, where they have well-off family. Failing that, asks to be directed to the Union of South Africa.