Pat Ryfka

Pat Ryfka received transit visa no. 1975 at the Japanese consulate in Kaunas on 19 August 1940. Aged 50 in 1940.

What the register records

Nationality as recorded

Polish

Age in 1940

50

Family, per the Kitade-Bluman list

mother of #200

The journey

Reached Japan; registered in Kobe for Canada.

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 4417, Rywka Pat, born 1890 at Białystok, who had come from Warsaw; the year agrees with the register's age.

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