Otilija Katz

Otilija Katz received transit visa no. 366 at the Japanese consulate in Kaunas on 30 July 1940. Aged 52 in 1940.

What the register records

Nationality as recorded

Polnisch

Age in 1940

52

Family, per the Kitade-Bluman list

wife of #365

The journey

Reached Japan; reached Shanghai.

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 1061) — found on reading the ledger page itself — the ledger reads: Katz Ottylia, born 7 November 1887 — named as wife on her husband Emil Katz's Shanghai entry 1061 (June 1941, 120 Yinkee Road).
• JDC Archives, New York, collection AR33-44 fi… — “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 Committee
  Named in the Kobe committee's list of persons who left Japan for Shanghai and Harbin in the month of May 1941 (JDC Archives). Katz Ottylja, Polish, sailed from Nagasaki for Shanghai on 14 May 1941 with Emil. The Shanghai consulate entered the pair together, her as 'Ottylia, wife of Emil', born 7 November 1887 — a married couple matched as a couple.
• Yad Vashem Archives, Jerusalem — the card file of Jewish refugees from Poland who found refuge in various countries, 1939–1941
  Yad Vashem's card file of Jewish refugees from Poland who found refuge in various countries, 1939–1941, has a card for Otylja Kac, born in 1887, of Łódź, wife of Emil, who was in Wilno during the war; the year and her husband's name agree with this register line. Credit: Yad Vashem Archives.

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