Sara Graff

Sara Graff received transit visa no. 271 at the Japanese consulate in Kaunas on 30 July 1940. Aged 44 in 1940.

What the register records

Nationality as recorded

Polnisch

Age in 1940

44

Family, per the Kitade-Bluman list

wife of #272

The journey

Reached Japan; registered in Kobe for Canada.

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…
  6867, b.1396 Lodz
• 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…
  No.58, age 47, b. Lodz, arr 24.1.1941, from Vilno
• hunt/familysearch: US arrival manifest: Sara Graff, Seattle, 1941
  "Seattle Passenger Lists", FamilySearch, entry for Sara Graff, 1941. Ship: Heian Maru. Matched from the Heian Maru's Polish-born passenger list (198 people, of whom 57 matched the register). Register No.271 'ara Graff' records age 44; the manifest gives born 1897, arriving 1941.