Ewa Lajzerowicz

Ewa Lajzerowicz received transit visa no. 430 at the Japanese consulate in Kaunas on 30 July 1940. Aged 48 in 1940.

What the register records

Nationality as recorded

Polnisch

Age in 1940

48

Family, per the Kitade-Bluman list

wife of #431

The journey

Reached Japan; reached Shanghai; aided by the Polish ambassador Tadeusz Romer; 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 406 of the Kobe Jewish Community's refugee register: aged 49, born at Warsaw, who travelled from Vilnius; left for San Francisco.
• 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 13 Feb 1941 (line 430)
• "California, San Francisco, Passenger Lists, 1893-1953", FamilySearch — index entry for Eva Laizerowicz, 1941: born about 1893, Poland. Digitised from NARA microfilm publication M1410 (passenger lists of vessels arriving at San Francisco…
  FamilySearch's index of the San Francisco passenger lists, read by the archive on 20 September 2026, has Eva Laizerowicz, born about 1893 in Poland, arriving at San Francisco in 1941. The register's compiled line gives 1892, and the two are 1 year apart. The name occurs once on the register, and a Polish-born passenger landing at San Francisco in 1941 fits the route through Japan, so the entry is taken as this person's under the archive's rule of 19 September 2026 for records from the route.
• Manifest of alien passengers, SS President Coolidge, sailing from Kobe, Japan, February 28 (day uncertain), 1941, arrived San Francisco date not read (US National Archives, M1410, film 368; read on FamilySearch's copy)
  The same National Archives list (FamilySearch's copy) shows Eva Lajzerowicz, born in Warsaw, sailing with her husband and sons from Kobe on the President Coolidge in February 1941, bound for New York. Her husband and the two sons are the family the register's compilers recorded for her.
• 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 7077, Lajzerowicz Ewa, born 1892 at Warsaw, who came from Warsaw, beside her husband Leopold; the year agrees with the age the register gives.

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