Kulczycka Zofja

Kulczycka Zofja received transit visa no. 1848 at the Japanese consulate in Kaunas on 17 August 1940. The register records student, aged 18.

What the register records

Nationality as recorded

Lithuanien

Age in 1940

18

Occupation

Student

The journey

Reached Japan; reached Shanghai.

Where this comes from

• 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…
  Entry 152 of the Kobe community's list of refugees and their relatives abroad: born 1921 at Vilnius (Wilno); relatives abroad: a friend, Sackiewicz, Baleares Hotel, Manila.
• 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…
  Entry 392 of the Kobe Jewish Community's refugee register: aged 20, born at Vilnius (Wilno), a student, who travelled from Vilnius.
• 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 1251); the names closely match this register line — approved by the owner's review, 19 Aug 2026 — the ledger reads: Kulczycka Zofia, born 8 October 1921 Wilno; Tokyo-issued passport of 10 April 1941 (Ser. II 290503) on a British Legation Kaunas certificate of 13 January 1940 (K-42).
• 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 1848)
• La-karov ve-la-rachok, 11 April 1946 — the Far Eastern Palestine Committee's list of Jewish refugees in Shanghai (National Library of Israel, Historical Jewish Press)
  The Far Eastern Palestine Committee's list of Jewish refugees in Shanghai, printed by the Jewish Agency Search Bureau's bulletin La-karov ve-la-rachok on 11 April 1946, lists Zofia Kulczeka: born 1921 at Vilno, a yeshiva student, arrived in 1941 from Vilnius; the year and the town agree with the Kobe Jewish community's refugee register, the Kobe community's list of refugees and their relatives (National Library of Israel, Historical Jewish Press).

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