Wojlang Sara

Wojlang Sara received transit visa no. 1915a at the Japanese consulate in Kaunas on 19 August 1940.

What the register records

Nationality as recorded

Polish

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 294 of the Kobe community's list of refugees and their relatives abroad: born 1923 at Warsaw, Polish; relatives abroad: a father, Zelman Lejb Wojland, care of B. Tajtelbaum, 314 West 100th Street, New York.
• 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 749 of the Kobe Jewish Community's refugee register: aged 18, born at Warsaw, a student, who travelled from Vilnius.
• 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 1915a — USHMM drops the suffix letter)
• JDC Archives, New York, collection AR 33/44 file 53 (the Jewish Community of Kobe's returns to the JDC, 1941; Set I, item 00761) — Set I p. 4 — SS President Cleveland, arrived Honolulu 18 April 1941, due San Francisco 26 April 1941
  She was listed among the aliens aboard the President Cleveland, which reached Honolulu on 18 April 1941 bound for San Francisco (JWB Hawaii list, forwarded to the JDC; JDC Archives, AR 33/44 file 53). The list reads: "Wojland, Sara — S — 18 — F — Pole — San Francisco".

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