Szyfer Wanda

Szyfer Wanda received transit visa no. 2079 at the Japanese consulate in Kaunas on 21 August 1940. Aged 26 in 1940.

What the register records

Nationality as recorded

Polish

Age in 1940

26

Family, per the Kitade-Bluman list

sister of #2081

The journey

Reached Japan; reached Shanghai; registered in Kobe for South America.

Where this comes from

• 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 2079)
• JDC Archives, New York, collection AR33-44 file 53 — “List of persons who left Japan for Shanghai and Harbin in the month of May 1941”, compiled by the Jewish Community of Kobe (Ashkenazim) for the American Jewish Joint Distribution Comm…
  Named in the Kobe committee's list of persons who left Japan for Shanghai and Harbin in the month of May 1941 (JDC Archives). Szyfer Wanda Halina, Polish, sailed from Nagasaki for Shanghai on 4 May 1941 aboard the Nagasaki Maru, travelling with Jerzy Moric. The two are four numbers apart on the register and reached Japan on the same day.