Hinda Milgrom

Hinda Milgrom received transit visa no. 259 at the Japanese consulate in Kaunas on 30 July 1940. The register records cosmetician, aged 29.

What the register records

Nationality as recorded

Polnisch

Age in 1940

29

Occupation

Cosmetician

Family, per the Kitade-Bluman list

sister of #275

The journey

Reached Japan; reached Shanghai; registered in Kobe for New Zealand.

Where this comes from

• The Shanghai Ledger — register of Polish citizens kept by the Consulate of Poland in Shanghai, 1934-1943 (original at the Archives of the Polish Ministry of Foreign Affairs, ref. 43/2003; digitised by the Library of Congress; indexed as…
  Registered with the Polish Consulate in Shanghai (ledger entry 1170); the register line's repaired reading and the ledger agree exactly — matched on the repaired register name, approved under the owner's review of 19 Aug 2026 — the ledger reads: Milgrom Hinda, cosmetician, Jewish, born 8 December 1910 Krakow, divorced; registered 25 September 1941; passport issued by the Polish Embassy in Tokyo 6 September 1941, valid to 5 September 1942; Thorburn Road / Chinking Road.
• UNRRA China Office, S-1132-0000-0181, registration of Polish rabbis and rabbinical students, their lists and sailings, Shanghai 1945–1946 (UN Archives, AG-018-001)
  By March 1946 the American Joint Distribution Committee's migration department in Shanghai had processed Hinda Milgrom, of 305/38 Kungping Road, for Wellington, New Zealand, where her contact was B. W. Frankel. (United Nations Archives, UNRRA China Office records.)
• UNRRA China Office, S-1132-0000-0165, Displaced Persons — Polish: repatriation and emigration correspondence, Shanghai 1945–1947 (UN Archives, AG-018-001)
  In March 1946 the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee certified to UNRRA that Hinda Milgrom, of 305/38 Kungping Road, was a Polish refugee holding a visa for New Zealand and an exit visa, and UNRRA's Shanghai office undertook to guarantee the passage to New Zealand of Mrs. Milgrom and Mr. Frankel. (United Nations Archives, UNRRA China Office records.)
• La-karov ve-la-rachok, 29 August 1946 — the Far Eastern Palestine Committee's list of Jewish refugees in Shanghai (National Library of Israel, Historical Jewish Press)
  The Far Eastern Palestine Committee's list of Jewish refugees in Shanghai, printed by the Jewish Agency Search Bureau's bulletin La-karov ve-la-rachok on 29 August 1946, lists Hinda Milgrom: born 1910 at Krakow, a milliner, arrived in 1941 from Vilno; the year agrees with the age the register gives, the name occurs once on the register, and an arrival in Shanghai in 1941 from Lithuania is the Sugihara route itself, so the archive attaches it under its rule of 19 September 2026 (National Library of Israel, Historical Jewish Press).
• 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 Hinda Milgrom, aged 31, born at Krakow, a cosmetician. Sugihara's ledger writes her given name Ginga; the register writes Hinda.
• The Kobe relatives list — refugees at Kobe in 1941 recorded with their relatives abroad. Seventy-six pages in numbered sheets (LIST No. 7, No. 16 and others), each line giving a name, age, birthplace, occupation and citizenship, and then…
  The Kobe community's list of refugees and their relatives abroad has Hinda Milgrom, born in 1910 at Krakow. Sugihara's ledger writes her given name Ginga; the list writes Hinda.
• Papers Past — the National Library of New Zealand's digitised newspapers (Evening Post, the Dominion, the Press, Auckland Star and others, 1942–1955)
  The Evening Post of Wellington, 30 June 1955, read on Papers Past on 20 October 2026, carries a public notice by Hinda Milgrom of Majoribanks Street, Wellington, of her intention to apply for a certificate of naturalisation. Two things tie the notice to her: the name occurs once on the register, and Wellington is where the UNRRA papers of March 1946 say she was bound from Shanghai.

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