Fajga Margolin received transit visa no. 745 at the Japanese consulate in Kaunas on 1 August 1940. Aged 32 in 1940.
What the register records
Nationality as recorded
Polnisch
Age in 1940
32
Family, per the Kitade-Bluman list
wife of #746
The journey
Reached Japan; aided by the Polish ambassador Tadeusz Romer; registered in Kobe for Australia.
What is known
The Margolins of Warsaw escaped as a family: bookkeeper Mojżesz-Szloma (No.746), his wife Fajga (No.745) and their eleven-year-old son Michał, photographed solemn-faced beside his mother on her certificate. Their papers collected the full route — Zwartendijk's declaration, Sugihara's visas of 1 August 1940, NKVD registrations — and in June 1941 the British Consulate in Kobe granted them six months in Australia on the strength of a single telegram-letter from the Australian Legation in Tokyo. Their certificates now rest in the National Archives of Australia.
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… 205, 33, Polish
Certificate of Polish citizenship No. M-52, issued to Fajga Margolin by the Legation of the Polish Republic at Kaunas on 26 January 1940. Issued in place of a passport book: the printed text states that it is granted for want of passport… The certificate names Fajga Margolin and gives her birth as 18 June 1908 at Warsaw, which agrees with the register's age of 32 in 1940. The line written across the foot records that she travels with her son Michal, born 18 April 1929 - eleven years old in 1940, the age the register gives for the Michal named with this family. Her married state agrees with the register, which pairs her with No. 746. Three points of agreement beyond the surname: the given name, the birth year, and the son's name and age.