Helena Wilenska received transit visa no. 437 at the Japanese consulate in Kaunas on 30 July 1940. Aged 51 in 1940.
What the register records
Nationality as recorded
Polnisch
Age in 1940
51
Family, per the Kitade-Bluman list
wife of #436
The journey
Reached Japan; reached Shanghai; aided by the Polish ambassador Tadeusz Romer; registered in Kobe for New Zealand.
Where this comes from
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… #37, age 51, Moscow, Polish
"List of persons arriving on route to New Zealand" — the arrival roster for the sailing from Japan, September 1941: 33 typed names, from Dr George Bluman’s own marked-up copy (sent 18 Aug 2026). Bluman’s red ticks mark the passengers he… Named on the list of persons arriving on route to New Zealand, sailing from Japan in 1941.