Cypora Taub received transit visa no. 559 at the Japanese consulate in Kaunas on 31 July 1940. The register records student, aged 17.
What the register records
Nationality as recorded
Polnisch
Age in 1940
17
Occupation
Student
Family, per the Kitade-Bluman list
sister of #557, #558
The journey
Reached Japan; aided by the Polish ambassador Tadeusz Romer; registered in Kobe for USA.
Where this comes from
M.S. Hie Maru, Kobe 4 May – Yokohama 7 May – Seattle 18 May 1941, sheet 6 of 11 Hie Maru passenger no. 119; 18y 7m; Student; b. Rakow, Poland; last residence Vilnius, Lithuania; US visa Q.I.V.6279, issued Yokohama, 4-30-1941; to Brooklyn, N.Y.; joining Father, Szoel Taub, 105 Ross St. Brooklyn, N.Y.; nearest relative left behind: Sister, Malke Viszkowska, Ofwock Niecala 6 Poland