Chawa Mendelson

Chawa Mendelson received transit visa no. 449 at the Japanese consulate in Kaunas on 30 July 1940. Aged 47 in 1940.

What the register records

Nationality as recorded

Polnisch

Age in 1940

47

Family, per the Kitade-Bluman list

wife of #364

The journey

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

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…
  Entry 211 of the Kobe community's list of refugees and their relatives abroad: aged 49, Polish.
• 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 1168) — the consulate's register of Polish citizens who reached the city, 1934-1943 — the ledger reads: Mendelson Chawa, born 1892 Warsaw, married; 181 Route Edan; Warsaw passport of 24 June 1939 extended by the British Legation in Kaunas 27 January and 24 July 1940 (M-57) and by the Embassy in Tokyo 4 July 1941 — with her husband Szlama (entry 1167, No.364).
• UNRRA China Office, S-1132-0000-0181, registration of Polish rabbis and rabbinical students, their lists and sailings, Shanghai 1945–1946 (UN Archives, AG-018-001)
  In April 1946 the American Joint Distribution Committee's migration department in Shanghai processed Evelyn (Chana) Mendelson and her husband Stanislaw (Szlama), of 772/47 Ward Road, for Brooklyn. (United Nations Archives, UNRRA China Office records.)
• 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 8337, Mendelson Chana, born 1892 at Warsaw, who came from Warsaw, with Mendelson Stanisław, born 1887, beside her; the year agrees with the age the register gives, and the town and her husband with what the archive already holds.

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