Krysztal Chawa Laja

Krysztal Chawa Laja received transit visa no. 1940 at the Japanese consulate in Kaunas on 19 August 1940. The register records teacher, aged 46.

What the register records

Nationality as recorded

Polish

Age in 1940

46

Occupation

Teacher

Family, per the Kitade-Bluman list

father of #1933

The journey

Reached Japan; registered in Kobe for Australia.

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…
  The 1940 Vilna refugee list has, at entry 2791, Chaja Laja Krysztal, born 1894 at Nowogród, who had come from Łomża; the year agrees with the register's age.
• 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 390 of the Kobe Jewish Community's refugee register: aged 48, born at Warsaw, a teacher, who arrived in Japan from Vilnius on 25 February 1941.
• 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 1940)
• 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…
  Chawa Laja Krysztal registered with the Polish Consulate in Shanghai in December 1941 as Chawa Krystal, a teacher born in Warsaw on 29 January 1893, living at 1166 Broadway — the address her son Dawid Fajgman gave the consulate the same week. (Polish Ministry of Foreign Affairs Archives, the Shanghai consulate's register, digitised by the Library of Congress.)

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