Mira Znamirowska

Mira 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…
  6474, Warszawa, 1910
• 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 — LEDGER ENTRY READ: 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.