Grynberg Sara
Visa no. 690 · Kaunas, 1 August 1940
Grynberg Sara received transit visa no. 690 at the Japanese consulate in Kaunas on 1 August 1940. The register records nurse, aged 26.
What the register records Nationality as recorded Polnisch Age in 1940 26 Occupation Nurse Family, per the Kitade-Bluman list wife of #691
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… 6852, b.1914 Vilniis, from Warszawa The JEWCOM register — the refugee register kept by the Refugee Committee of the Jewish Community of Kobe (Ashkenazim) at No. 6 Yamamoto-dori, 1-chome, whose cable address was 'JEWCOM Kobe'. Eighty-four pages on the committee's own printe…No.62, age 27, b. Vilno, Nurse Oral history interview with Moises Grinberg — USC Shoah Foundation Visual History Archive, interview 28759. Catalogue: born Feb 24 1913, Warsaw (Warsaw, Poland); born Warsaw 24 Feb 1913; Bluman: No.691 Grynberg Mojsze, merchant, 27, husb… USC Shoah Foundation VHA interview 28759: Moises Grinberg — his wife Sara — gave a testimony (catalogue: born Feb 24 1913, Warsaw (Warsaw, Poland)); born Warsaw 24 Feb 1913; Bluman: No.691 Grynberg Mojsze, merchant, 27, husband of No.690 Oral history interview with Sara Grinberg — USC Shoah Foundation Visual History Archive, interview 29329. Catalogue: born Jan 1 1914, Wilno (Wilno, Poland); born Wilno 1 Jan 1914; Bluman: No.690 Grynberg Sara, nurse, 26, wife of No.691.… USC Shoah Foundation VHA interview 29329: Sara Grinberg — the interviewee herself — gave a testimony (catalogue: born Jan 1 1914, Wilno (Wilno, Poland)); born Wilno 1 Jan 1914; Bluman: No.690 Grynberg Sara, nurse, 26, wife of No.691 Catalogue still for the oral history of Moises Grinberg — USC Shoah Foundation Visual History Archive, interview 28759 (the archive's public catalogue frame, 352x240); links to the testimony at vha.usc.edu/testimony/28759 Catalogue still for the oral history of Sara Grinberg — USC Shoah Foundation Visual History Archive, interview 29329 (the archive's public catalogue frame, 352x240); links to the testimony at vha.usc.edu/testimony/29329
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Grynberg Sara is one of 2,140 people recorded in the surviving register of the transit
visas Chiune Sugihara issued at the Japanese consulate in Kaunas, Lithuania, in 1940.
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