Bajla Chana Wajngarten

Bajla Chana Wajngarten received transit visa no. 625 at the Japanese consulate in Kaunas on 1 August 1940. Aged 37 in 1940.

What the register records

Nationality as recorded

Polnisch

Age in 1940

37

Family, per the Kitade-Bluman list

wife of #626

The journey

Reached Japan; reached Shanghai; aided by the Polish ambassador Tadeusz Romer; registered in Kobe for Canada.

Where this comes from

• JDC Archives, New York, collection AR 33/44 file 53 (the Jewish Community of Ko… — "List of departures for the month of June, 1941" (Jewish Community of Kobe, Migration Office; covering letter p. 12, Kobe, July 1941, HICEM-funded tickets)
  She left Yokohama on the Hikawa Maru on 5 June 1941, bound for Vancouver (the Jewish Community of Kobe's list of departures, June 1941 (JDC Archives, AR 33/44 file 53)). The list reads: Hikawa Maru sheet: "(as above) "& wife Bajla"". (Hikawa Maru, Yokohama, 5 June 1941, Vancouver.)
• 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 7238, a Chawa Wajngarten, born in 1903 at Sierpc, beside Jerachmiel Wajngarten and the children Aleksander and Jale. The year and the family agree; the list's given name, Chawa, is not the ledger's Chana, so this is shown as a lead.

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