Rywka Apfelbaum
Visa no. 464 · Kaunas, 31 July 1940
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… #45, Warszawa, Praga Czeska 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…#1, Tschecoslovakia, 43, born Warsaw, from Vilno, arr 13.1.1941
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Rywka Apfelbaum is one of 2,140 people recorded in the surviving register of the transit
visas Chiune Sugihara issued at the Japanese consulate in Kaunas, Lithuania, in 1940.
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