Judith Wertans

Judith Wertans received transit visa no. 577 at the Japanese consulate in Kaunas on 31 July 1940. Aged 32 in 1940.

What the register records

Nationality as recorded

Polnisch

Age in 1940

32

Family, per the Kitade-Bluman list

wife of #1443, cousin of #498

The journey

Reached Japan; reached Shanghai; registered in Kobe for USA.

Where this comes from

• 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 1473) — found on reading the ledger page itself — LEDGER ENTRY READ: Wertans Judyf (Judith), born 3 March 1901 Wilno — named as wife on her husband Jakob Wertans's Shanghai entry 1473, with daughter Nina born 17 April 1932 (December 1941, 925 Avenue Joffre).