Aria Wilner

Aria Wilner received transit visa no. 399 at the Japanese consulate in Kaunas on 30 July 1940. The register records baker, aged 33.

What the register records

Nationality as recorded

Polnisch

Age in 1940

33

Occupation

Baker

Family, per the Kitade-Bluman list

husband of #400, child Rozyna (4)

The journey

Reached Japan; reached Shanghai.

Travelled with, and never given a number

• Rozyna — child, aged 4

The register recorded visa holders. It did not reliably record the wives and children who travelled on somebody else’s visa, so these people have no entry of their own and cannot be searched for. Where the archive has recovered a name, it is here.

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 6192, Aria Wilner, born 1907, who had come from Warszawa; the year agrees with the register's compiled age.
• 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 220 of the Kobe community's list of refugees and their relatives abroad: with family, numbered 262 to 265, born at Warsaw; relatives abroad: an aunt, Eta Karmel, Entre Rios 1357, PSTC 9, Rosario, Republic of Argentina; an aunt, M. Cybulska, 1638 6 West, Brooklyn, New York; a cousin, A. Mozer, 539 Jorale Mon Street, New York, Belleville.
• 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 744 of the Kobe Jewish Community's refugee register: aged 34, born at Warsaw, a baker, who arrived in Japan from Vilnius on 3 February 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 3 Feb 1941 (line 399)
• JDC Archives Names Database — “Vilna Refugees, 1940”: Polish Jewish refugees receiving JDC aid after moving east to Vilna, Lithuania in 1940 to escape the Nazi regime. Searched for the surname Wilner on 26 August 2026 (46 records returne…
  Named on the JDC's list of Polish Jewish refugees receiving aid in Vilna in 1940 (JDC Names Database item 250261). Consistent with the Vilna Refugee List, which gives Aria Wilner born 1907, from Warszawa.
• JDC Archives Names Database — “List of Refugees Arriving in Japan and Receiving JDC Aid, 1941”: Polish, German and other Jewish refugees arriving at Kobe in 1940–41, giving names, ages, birthplace, profession, date of arrival in Japan, d…
  Named on the JDC's list of refugees arriving in Japan and receiving JDC aid, 1941 (JDC Names Database item 398619) — the Kobe arrivals. This closes the chain for him across three independent bodies of record: Vilna in 1940, Sugihara's register on 30 July 1940, and Kobe in 1941, where the Kobe committee's own list has him as no. 744, aged 34, of Warsaw, a baker, arrived 3 February from Vilno.
• JDC Archives Names Database, remittance record 1316404 — money sent to ARIA WILNER in 1940–41 by two remitters, ETA MARMEL and M. CYBULSKA. The Kobe committee's own 1941 list names the same two women on Aria Wilner's line as his aunts: “…
  JDC remittance record 1316404: the remitters are Eta Marmel and M. Cybulska, the beneficiary Aria Wilner. The Kobe list of 1941 gives this man's contacts as his aunts Eta Karmel of Rosario, Argentina and M. Cybulska of Brooklyn. The same two women, in the same order, in a record the Kobe committee never saw. This settles No. 399 as an identification rather than a name match — and it shows the aunts were not merely addresses he carried, but were actually sending him money.

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