Bronislawa Goldman

Bronislawa Goldman received transit visa no. 339 at the Japanese consulate in Kaunas on 30 July 1940. The register records student, aged 18.

What the register records

Nationality as recorded

Polnisch

Age in 1940

18

Occupation

Student

The journey

Reached Japan; reached Shanghai.

Where this comes from

• 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…
  Entry 89 of the Kobe community's list of refugees and their relatives abroad: born 1922; relatives abroad: an uncle, Harry Gould, 2245 North 4th Street, Harrisburg; an aunt, Dorota Blum, 1320 Wagner Street, Logan, Philadelphia.
• 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…
  Entry 177 (also numbered 225) of the Kobe Jewish Community's refugee register: aged 19, born at Warsaw, a student, who arrived in Japan on 25 February 1941.
• 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 1112) — the consulate's register of Polish citizens who reached the city, 1934-1943 — the ledger reads: Goldman Bronislawa, born 1922 Warsaw; Warsaw passport of 13 July 1938 extended by the Embassy in Tokyo 2 May 1941.
• 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 339)
• Tadeusz Romer papers, Library and Archives Canada, MG 31 D 68, vol. 2 (microfilm reel C-10451, frame 1088): 'Lista obywateli polskich ewakuowanych z Dalekiego Wschodu… — cited by link only (Canadiana Heritage); frame image not republished
  Named on the Polish Embassy's list of Polish citizens evacuated from the Far East on the exchange ship s/s Kamakura Maru, Shanghai, 16 August 1942 — one of the 41 'civilian refugees' for whom Ambassador Romer obtained places (evacuee no. 73, 'GOLDMAN Bronislawa'); the party sailed with Romer to Lourenco Marques and most went on to England
• Library and Archives Canada, Tadeusz Romer fonds, MG 31 D 68, reel C-10452, frame 625, via Canadiana Heritage — a Polish Embassy list of 41 Polish refugees, filed among Romer's Shanghai-period papers — page 1, entries 1-10 (Bajer, Bram a…
  On the Polish Embassy's list of 41 Polish refugees (Romer's Shanghai-period papers) (Romer fonds, reel C-10452, frame 625, entry 10): GOLDMAN Bronisława, born 1922; passport 4976/38, W-wa Płn. 13.7.38, do 8.12.1943 — No visa. Wishes to go to the Union of South Africa, where she has friends and special recommendations assuring work or support.

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