Elka Eichenblatt

Elka Eichenblatt received transit visa no. 404 at the Japanese consulate in Kaunas on 30 July 1940. Aged 53 in 1940.

What the register records

Nationality as recorded

Polnisch

Age in 1940

53

Family, per the Kitade-Bluman list

Emanuel

The journey

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

Where this comes from

• 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 59 of the Kobe Jewish Community's refugee register: aged 49, who arrived in Japan from Vilnius on 25 February 1941.
• La-karov ve-la-rachok (Jewish Agency Search Bureau for Missing Relatives, Jerusalem), 28 March 1946 (National Library of Israel, Historical Jewish Press)
  Elka Eichenblatt and her husband Emanuel reached Shanghai from Wilno in 1941. In 1946 the Jewish Agency's Far Eastern Palestine Committee in Shanghai sent its list of the Jewish refugees there to the Search Bureau for Missing Relatives in Jerusalem, which printed it in its bulletin, La-karov ve-la-rachok. Emanuel is listed as a merchant born in 1887 at Zakrzyże, with his wife Elka. The archive attaches the entry because the list is one of refugees on the Sugihara route, her name occurs once on the register, and the place and date fit (National Library of Israel, Historical Jewish Press).
• 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 Elka Eichenblatt, aged 51, of Warsaw, who was in Wilno during the war, beside a card for her husband Emanuel. The archive attaches it under its rule of 19 September 2026: the card file is a record of the refugees in Wilno, where the road through Sugihara's visas began; the full name occurs once on the register; and the card places the person in Wilno in 1939–41, on the road to Sugihara's visas. Credit: Yad Vashem Archives.

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