Mira Rozenblat

Mira Rozenblat received transit visa no. 71 at the Japanese consulate in Kaunas on 29 July 1940. Aged 25 in 1940.

What the register records

Nationality as recorded

Polnisch

Age in 1940

25

Family, per the Kitade-Bluman list

wife of #72

The journey

Reached Japan; reached Shanghai; 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 4700, Mira Rozenblat, born 1915 at Vienna, who had come from Warsaw; the year agrees with the register's age and Vienna agrees with the archive's other records.
• The Kobe relatives list — refugees at Kobe in 1941 recorded with their relatives abroad. Seventy-six pages in numbered sheets (LIST No. 7, No. 16 and others), each line giving a name, age, birthplace, occupation and citizenship, and then…
  The Kobe community's list of refugees and their relatives abroad gives as relatives abroad an uncle, William Coldstein, Ontja, South Africa; an uncle, Jacob Levy, Cleveland.
• 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 25 Jan 1941 (line 71)
• 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 1082) — found on reading the ledger page itself — the ledger reads: Rozenblat Mira, born 1915 Vienna — named as wife on her husband Stanislaw Rozenblat's Shanghai entry 1082 (July 1941, Tamai Hotel).
• Arolsen person record: MIRA ROSENBLATT
  [context] PlaceBirth: KAUNAS; Dob: 03/12/1924
• 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 Taiyo Maru on 18 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: "″ Mira". (Taiyo Maru, Kobe, 18 July 1941, destination Australia.)

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