Masza Swislocki

Masza Swislocki received transit visa no. 62 at the Japanese consulate in Kaunas on 27 July 1940. The register records food chemist, aged 31.

What the register records

Nationality as recorded

Polnisch

Age in 1940

31

Occupation

Food Chemist

Family, per the Kitade-Bluman list

wife of #61

The journey

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

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 5646, Masia Swisłocka, born 1909 at Warsaw, who had come from Warsaw; the year agrees with the register's age.
• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, Holocaust Survivors and Victims Database — the Flight and Rescue electronic dataset (source 20725): USHMM's own transcription of the Kaunas register, 2,140 persons with citizenship, visa type, iss…
  USHMM Flight and Rescue dataset: arrived in Japan 13 Feb 1941 (line 62)
• "California, San Francisco, Passenger Lists, 1893-1953", FamilySearch — index entry for Masza Swislocki, 1947: born about 1909, Poland. Digitised from NARA microfilm publication M1410 (passenger lists of vessels arriving at San Francisco…
  FamilySearch's index of the San Francisco passenger lists, read by the archive on 20 September 2026, has Masza Swislocki, born about 1909 in Poland, arriving at San Francisco in 1947 on the General M. C. Meigs. The register's compiled line gives 1909, and the two are 0 years apart, and the name occurs once on the register. The sheet names the ship but its heading could not be read for the port she sailed from, so this is held as a lead until it can. The sheet is NARA microfilm publication M1410, film 390, image 190, read by the archive on 20 September 2026.
• 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…
  The Polish consulate's Shanghai ledger has Masza Swislocka on page 1268. The name occurs only once on Sugihara's list and the ledger is the register of Polish citizens in Shanghai, where the route of her visa ended; that is the basis of this attachment.

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