Mina Znamirowska
Visa no. 534 · Kaunas, 31 July 1940
Mina Znamirowska received transit visa no. 534 at the Japanese consulate in Kaunas on 31 July 1940. Aged 20 in 1940.
What the register records
- Nationality as recorded
- Polnisch
- Age in 1940
- 20
- Family, per the Kitade-Bluman list
- wife of #533
The journey
Reached Japan; reached Shanghai; registered in Kobe for Brazil.
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 6475, Mina Znamirowska, born 1919 at Warszawa, who had come from Warszawa; the year agrees with the register's compiled age, and her husband Jakub Józef stands on the line above. - The Shanghai Ledger — register of Polish citizens kept by the Consulate of Poland in Shanghai, 1934-1943 (original at the Archives of the Polish Ministry of Foreign Affairs, ref. 43/2003; digitised by the Library of Congress; indexed as…
Registered with the Polish Consulate in Shanghai (ledger entry 1286); the register line's dropped first letters restored, the names agree — approved by the owner's review, 19 Aug 2026 — the ledger reads: Znamirowska Mira, born 20 October 1919 Warsaw, married; 80/3 Rue Paul Henry; passport issued by the Shanghai consulate 6 November 1941 (Z-50/2) — with her husband Jakub-Jozef Znamirowski (merchant, b. 12 February 1910 Warsaw, entry 1287, Z-50/1), who is not in the Kaunas register. - "California, San Francisco, Passenger Lists, 1893-1953", FamilySearch — index entry for Mina Znamirowska, 1947: born about 1920, Poland. Digitised from NARA microfilm publication M1410 (passenger lists of vessels arriving at San Francisc…
FamilySearch's index of the San Francisco passenger lists, read by the archive on 20 September 2026, has Mina Znamirowska, born about 1920 in Poland, arriving at San Francisco in 1947. The surname is the register's and rare on it, and the given name is close but not the same; a lead, not an identification.
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