Pola Orlanska

Pola Orlanska received transit visa no. 549 at the Japanese consulate in Kaunas on 31 July 1940. Aged 22 in 1940.

What the register records

Nationality as recorded

Polnisch

Age in 1940

22

Family, per the Kitade-Bluman list

sister of #551

The journey

Destination given in the Kitade-Bluman list: Palestine.

Where this comes from

• Yad Vashem Archives, Jerusalem — the card file of Jewish refugees from Poland who found refuge in various countries, 1939–1941
  Yad Vashem's card file of Jewish refugees from Poland who found refuge in various countries, 1939–1941, has a card for Pola Orlanska, aged 21, of Warsaw, who was in Wilno during the war; her brother Jakob's card is in the same file. The archive attaches it under its rule of 19 September 2026: the card file is a record of the refugees in Wilno, where the road through Sugihara's visas began; the full name occurs once on the register; and the card places the person in Wilno in 1939–41, on the road to Sugihara's visas. Credit: Yad Vashem Archives.

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