Matilda Sulfrid

Matilda Sulfrid received transit visa no. 215 at the Japanese consulate in Kaunas on 30 July 1940. Aged 37 in 1940.

What the register records

Nationality as recorded

Polnisch

Age in 1940

37

Family, per the Kitade-Bluman list

wife of #217

The journey

Reached Japan; reached Shanghai; aided by the Polish ambassador Tadeusz Romer; registered in Kobe for Burma.

Where this comes from

• 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…
  The Kobe Jewish Community's refugee register lists her under her husband Ruwin Szulfrid (entry 607): Matylda, aged 37, born at Lodz.
• JDC Archives, New York, collection AR 33/44 file 53 (the Jewish Community of Kobe's returns to the JDC, 1941; Set I, item 00761) — Set I pp. 5–7 — "List… — "List of persons who left Japan for Shanghai in the month of July 1941", Nos. 1–15
  She left Kobe on the Taiyo Maru on 18 July 1941, bound for Burma (the Jewish Community of Kobe's list of departures, July 1941 (JDC Archives, AR 33/44 file 53)). The list reads: "″ Matylda". (Taiyo Maru, Kobe, 18 July 1941, destination Burma.)

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