Szwarcman Golda

Szwarcman Golda received transit visa no. 1897 at the Japanese consulate in Kaunas on 17 August 1940. Aged 52 in 1940.

What the register records

Nationality as recorded

Polnisch

Age in 1940

52

Family, per the Kitade-Bluman list

wife of #1853

The journey

Reached Japan; reached Shanghai; 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 2 Feb 1941 (line 1897)
• 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 1524) — found on reading the ledger page itself — the ledger reads: Szwarcman Golda-Roza, born 27 March 1888 Kiev — named as wife on her husband Jozef Szwarcman's Shanghai entry 1524 (December 1941, 404 Avenue Joffre).
• 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 Golda Szwarcman, born in 1888, of Warsaw, married to Joseph, who was in Wilno during the war; the year and her husband's name agree with this register line. Credit: Yad Vashem Archives.

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