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…
  The 1940 Vilna refugee list has, at entry 3911, Maria Małowist, born 1900 at Łódź, who had come from Łódź; the year agrees with the register's age and Łódź agrees with the archive's other records.
• 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:… — the interviewee may be living
  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)
• "California, San Francisco, Passenger Lists, 1893-1953", FamilySearch — index entry for Maria Malowist, 1941: born about 1900, Poland. Digitised from NARA microfilm publication M1410 (passenger lists of vessels arriving at San Francisco)…
  FamilySearch's index of the San Francisco passenger lists, read by the archive on 20 September 2026, has Maria Malowist, born about 1900 in Poland, arriving at San Francisco in 1941. The register's compiled line gives 1900, and the two agree. The name occurs once on the register, and a Polish-born passenger landing at San Francisco in 1941 fits the route through Japan, so the entry is taken as this person's under the archive's rule of 19 September 2026 for records from the route.
• Manifest of alien passengers, SS Asama Maru, sailing from Yokohama, Feb. 20 (day uncertain), 1941, arrived San Francisco date not read (US National Archives, M1410, film 368; read on FamilySearch's copy)
  The National Archives' passenger list of the Asama Maru (FamilySearch's copy) records Maria Malowist, 41, of Łódź, sailing from Yokohama in February 1941 with her husband Szymon and their daughter, bound for New York. The age is within a year of the compilers' record, and her husband and daughter are the family they list beside her.

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