Fania Mirska

Fania Mirska received transit visa no. 586 at the Japanese consulate in Kaunas on 31 July 1940. Aged 30 in 1940.

What the register records

Nationality as recorded

Polnisch

Age in 1940

30

Family, per the Kitade-Bluman list

wife of #585

The journey

Reached Japan; aided by the Polish ambassador Tadeusz Romer; registered in Kobe for Australia.

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 3962, Fnia Mirska, born 1909, who had come from Warsaw; the year agrees with the register's age.
• JDC Archives, New York, collection AR 33/44 file 53 (the Jewish Community of Kobe's returns to the JDC, 1941; Set I, item 00761) — Set I pp. 5–7 — "List… — "List of persons who left Japan for Shanghai in the month of July 1941", Nos. 1–15
  She left Kobe on the Kasima Maru on 6 July 1941, bound for Australia (the Jewish Community of Kobe's list of departures, July 1941 (JDC Archives, AR 33/44 file 53)). The list reads: "″ Fanis [= Fania]". (Kasima Maru, Kobe, 6 July 1941, destination Australia.)

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