Chanowicz Fruma
Visa no. 1838 · Kaunas, 16 August 1940
Chanowicz Fruma received transit visa no. 1838 at the Japanese consulate in Kaunas on 16 August 1940. The register records student, aged 27.
What the register records Nationality as recorded Lithuanien Age in 1940 27 Occupation Student Family, per the Kitade-Bluman list sister of #1841
The journey Reached Japan; reached Shanghai.
Where this comes from 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… Nr.922, b.1913 The Kobe relatives list — refugees at Kobe in 1941 recorded with their relatives abroad. Seventy-six pages in numbered sheets (LIST No. 7, No. 16 and others), each line giving a name, age, birthplace, occupation and citizenship, and then…39, 28, Glebokie, student; cousin D.Fitelson 467 Clifford Ave Rochester NY 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 1368) — the consulate's register of Polish citizens who reached the city, 1934-1943 — LEDGER ENTRY READ: Chanowicz Fruma, schoolgirl, born 12 August 1913 Glebokie, single; registered 13 December 1941 on a passport issued by the Shanghai consulate itself (C-51, 3 December 1941) — with siblings Gerszon, Izrael and Szmuel (entries 1364-1367).
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Chanowicz Fruma is one of 2,140 people recorded in the surviving register of the transit
visas Chiune Sugihara issued at the Japanese consulate in Kaunas, Lithuania, in 1940.
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