Basza Miedwiecka
Visa no. 485 · Kaunas, 31 July 1940
Basza Miedwiecka received transit visa no. 485 at the Japanese consulate in Kaunas on 31 July 1940. Aged 51 in 1940.
What the register records Nationality as recorded Polnisch Age in 1940 51 Family, per the Kitade-Bluman list father of #398
The journey Reached Japan; registered in Kobe for South Africa.
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… 3979, Biaiystok, 1889, from Biaiystok 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…No.116, age 52, b. Bialystok, arr. 21.1. United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, Holocaust Survivors and Victims Database — the Flight and Rescue electronic dataset (source 20725): USHMM's own transcription of the Kaunas register, 2,140 persons with citizenship, visa type, iss… USHMM Flight and Rescue dataset: arrived in Japan 21 Jan 1941 (line 485)
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Basza Miedwiecka 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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