Basza Miedwiecka

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…
  The 1940 Vilna refugee list has, at entry 3979, Biasia Miedwiecka, born 1889, who had come from Białystok; the year agrees with the register's age and Białystok agrees with the archive's other records.
• 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 116 of the Kobe Jewish Community's refugee register: aged 52, born at Bialystok, who arrived in Japan on 21 January 1941.
• 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)
• 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… — "List of refugees who left Japan to places other than Shanghai in the month of May 1941", Nos. 1–321
  She left Kobe on the Manila Maru on 29 May 1941, bound for South Africa (the Jewish Community of Kobe's list of departures, May 1941 (JDC Archives, AR 33/44 file 53)). The list reads: "Miedwiecka Bassa". (Manila Maru, Kobe, 29 May 1941.)

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