Chana Mendelson

Chana 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…
  211, 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 — LEDGER ENTRY READ: 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).