Malowist Marja

Malowist Marja received transit visa no. 2017 at the Japanese consulate in Kaunas on 20 August 1940. Aged 40 in 1940.

What the register records

Nationality as recorded

Polish

Age in 1940

40

Family, per the Kitade-Bluman list

wife of #2016

The journey

Reached Japan; registered in Kobe for Palestine.

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…
  3911, 1900
• Oral history interview with Irene Rothenberg (née Malowist) — USC Shoah Foundation Visual History Archive, interview 38553. Catalogue: born Oct 18 1928, Łódź (Łódź, Poland); born Lodz 18 Oct 1928; Bluman: No.2016 Malowist Szymon, 43, hus…
  USC Shoah Foundation VHA interview 38553: Irene Rothenberg (née Malowist) — her mother Marja — gave a testimony (catalogue: born Oct 18 1928, Łódź (Łódź, Poland)); born Lodz 18 Oct 1928; Bluman: No.2016 Malowist Szymon, 43, husband of No.2017, child Irena (12)