Tola Sapir

Tola Sapir received transit visa no. 386 at the Japanese consulate in Kaunas on 30 July 1940. The register records knitting, aged 37.

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What the register records

Nationality as recorded

Polnisch

Age in 1940

37

Occupation

Knitting

Family, per the Kitade-Bluman list

wife of #379

The journey

Reached Japan; reached Shanghai; registered in Kobe for Australia.

What is known

This document combines a Curacao/Netherlands consulate notation and a Japanese transit visa issued at Kaunas (Kovno), Lithuania. The Netherlands consul's stamp indicates no visa was required for entry to Curacao and other Dutch colonies. The Japanese consulate (Sugihara) granted transit through Japan on 30 August 1940 to Tola Sapir, en route to the Netherlands colonies.

No. 1387 Consulat du Japon a Kaunas Consulat des Pays-Bas a Kaunas Transit Visa 30/VIII 1940 Seen for the journey to Surinam, Curacao and other Netherlands colonies through Japan 29.VII.40

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…
  The 1940 Vilna refugee list has, at entry 5600, Tola Sapir, born 1903 at Łódź, who had come from Łódź; the year agrees with the register's age.
• 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 Jan 1941 (line 386)
• 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 1087) — found on reading the ledger page itself — the ledger reads: Sapir Tola, born 1903 — named as wife on her husband Jakob Sapir's Shanghai entry 1087, with their son Piotr Seweryn, born 1935 (August 1941, Hotel Savoy).
• The visa page of Tola Sapir (No. 386): Zwartendijk's Curaçao declaration No. 1387 of July 1940, a handwritten Sugihara transit visa of 30 July 1940, and a Japanese landing stamp.
• Shanghai Ledger, page 136 (left): entries 1082-10… — Savoy Hotel), Wagowski Artur (b. 1905 Ulm, on a Brussels-consulate passport), Tyk Szoel (b. 27 Nov 1917 Nowe Miasto). Library of Congress digitisation of the Polish Consulate's register
• Shanghai Ledger, page 136 (right): entries 1082-1… — Savoy Hotel), Wagowski Artur (b. 1905 Ulm, on a Brussels-consulate passport), Tyk Szoel (b. 27 Nov 1917 Nowe Miasto). Library of Congress digitisation of the Polish Consulate's register

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