Anna Chazan

Anna Chazan received transit visa no. 47 at the Japanese consulate in Kaunas on 27 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 #49

The journey

Reached Japan; aided by the Polish ambassador Tadeusz Romer; registered in Kobe for Australia.

Where this comes from

• JDC Archives, New York, collection AR 33/44 file 53 (the Jewish Community of Kobe's returns to the JDC, 1941; Set I, item 00761) — Set I pp. 5–7 — "List… — "List of persons who left Japan for Shanghai in the month of July 1941", Nos. 1–15
  She left Kobe on the Kasima Maru on 6 July 1941, bound for Australia (the Jewish Community of Kobe's list of departures, July 1941 (JDC Archives, AR 33/44 file 53)). The list reads: "″ Anna". (Kasima Maru, Kobe, 6 July 1941, destination Australia.)
• Public Record Office Victoria — the probate and administration index
  Anna Chazan died at East St Kilda, Melbourne, on 14 February 1959; her husband David survived her by two years. (Public Record Office Victoria, probate index.)

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