Rywka Apfelbaum

Rywka Apfelbaum received transit visa no. 464 at the Japanese consulate in Kaunas on 31 July 1940. Aged 43 in 1940.

What the register records

Nationality as recorded

Polnisch

Age in 1940

43

The journey

Reached Japan; registered in Kobe for UK.

Where this comes from

• 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 46, Rywka Appelbaum, born 1898 at Warszawa, who came from Praga Czeska; the year agrees with the register's compiled age.
• 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 1 of the Kobe Jewish Community's refugee register: listed among Czechoslovak subjects, aged 43, born at Warsaw, who arrived in Japan from Vilnius on 13 January 1941.

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