Irena Halpern

Irena Halpern received transit visa no. 387 at the Japanese consulate in Kaunas on 30 July 1940. The register records economist, aged 23.

What the register records

Nationality as recorded

Polnisch

Age in 1940

23

Occupation

Economist

Family, per the Kitade-Bluman list

wife of #388

The journey

Reached Japan; reached Shanghai; registered in Kobe for South America.

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…
  2377; 1917
• 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 978) — the consulate's register of Polish citizens who reached the city, 1934-1943 — LEDGER ENTRY READ: Halpern Irena, EVANGELICAL-REFORMED, born 3 June 1917 Radom, married; registered 14 February 1941 on a certificate (H-11) issued by the Polish Legation in Kaunas 15 January 1940.
• 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 3 Feb 1941 (line 387)