Danuta Lapacz

Danuta Lapacz received transit visa no. 515 at the Japanese consulate in Kaunas on 31 July 1940.

What the register records

Nationality as recorded

Polnisch

Family, per the Kitade-Bluman list

wife of #516

The journey

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

What is known

Danuta Lapacz, wife of Leopold Bluman, received Sugihara transit visa (S visa #515) in Kaunas, Lithuania in 1940.

his wife (Danuta Lapacz, S visa #515)

Where this comes from

• "List of persons arriving on route to New Zealand" — the arrival roster for the sailing from Japan, September 1941: 33 typed names, from Dr George Bluman’s own marked-up cop… — September 1941, not July; he had misread his own handwriting.
  Named on the list of persons arriving on route to New Zealand, sailing from Japan in 1941. Named on the list as 'Danuta zona' — zona is Polish for wife, not a given name. The register gives her a line of her own under her own surname, Lapacz.
• 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 8222, Danuta Lapacz Bluman, born in 1914. She follows Szoel Leopold Bluman.
• https://personal.math.ubc.ca/~bluman/ChiuneSugiharaLists.html

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