Emma Chazan

Emma Chazan received transit visa no. 48 at the Japanese consulate in Kaunas on 27 July 1940. Aged 18 in 1940.

What the register records

Nationality as recorded

Polnisch

Age in 1940

18

Family, per the Kitade-Bluman list

daughter of #49

The journey

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

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 48 of the Kobe community's list of refugees and their relatives abroad: aged 35, born at Bransk, a rabbi; relatives abroad: a sister, H. Vicoff, 922 Green Avenue, Brooklyn, New York.
• 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: "″ Emma". (Kasima Maru, Kobe, 6 July 1941, destination Australia.)

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