Waldberg Maria Chaim

Waldberg Maria Chaim received transit visa no. 1801 at the Japanese consulate in Kaunas on 16 August 1940. The register records dentist, aged 47.

What the register records

Nationality as recorded

Polnisch

Age in 1940

47

Occupation

Dentist

The journey

Reached Japan; reached Shanghai.

Where this comes from

• 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 1213); the names closely match this register line — approved by the owner's review, 19 Aug 2026 — the ledger reads: Waldberg Maria, dentist, born 1893 Zgierz, single; 599 Tongshan Road; Tokyo-issued passport of 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 1801)
• 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… — cited by link only (Canadiana Heritage); frame image not republished
  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. 96, 'WALDBERG Maria (with her sister Brandla, 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 36): WALDBERG Maria, lekarz dentysta (dentist), born 1893; passport 389/729/21/VIII/41, Tokio 8.8.41, do 8.12.43 — No visa. Vide as sister ad poz. 35.
• Yad Vashem Archives, Jerusalem — the card file of Jewish refugees from Poland who found refuge in various countries, 1939–1941
  Yad Vashem's card file of Jewish refugees from Poland who found refuge in various countries, 1939–1941, has a card for Maria Waldberg, who was in Wilno during the war. The archive attaches it under its rule of 19 September 2026: the card file is a record of the refugees in Wilno, where the road through Sugihara's visas began; the full name occurs once on the register; and the card places the person in Wilno in 1939–41, on the road to Sugihara's visas. Credit: Yad Vashem Archives.

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