Irena Zauberman

Irena Zauberman received transit visa no. 78 at the Japanese consulate in Kaunas on 29 July 1940. Aged 39 in 1940.

What the register records

Nationality as recorded

Polnisch

Age in 1940

39

Family, per the Kitade-Bluman list

wife of #79

The journey

Reached Japan; reached Shanghai.

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 6553, Irena Zauberman, born 1901 at Łódź, who had come from Łódź; the year agrees with the register's compiled age, and her husband Alfred stands on the line above.
• 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 1154) — the consulate's register of Polish citizens who reached the city, 1934-1943 — the ledger reads: Zauberman Irena, clerk, Jewish, born 1901 Lodz, married; registered 22 September 1941; 100 Route Paul Henry; passport issued by the Polish Embassy in Tokyo 19 May 1941 on a Kaunas certificate of December 1939.
• Tadeusz Romer papers, Library and Archives Canada, MG 31 D 68, vol. 2 (microfilm reel C-10451, frame 1089): 'Lista obywateli polskich ewakuowanych z Dalekiego Wschodu… — cited by link only (Canadiana Heritage); frame image not republished
  Named on the Polish Embassy's list of Polish citizens evacuated from the Far East on the exchange ship s/s Kamakura Maru, Shanghai, 16 August 1942 — one of the 41 'civilian refugees' for whom Ambassador Romer obtained places (evacuee no. 101, 'ZAUBERMAN Irena (wife of Alfred, evacuees 100-101)'); the party sailed with Romer to Lourenco Marques and most went on to England
• Library and Archives Canada, Tadeusz Romer fonds, MG 31 D 68, reel C-10452, frame 628, via Canadiana Heritage — the same list, page 4, entries 33-41 (Rathaus, Rabbi Siemiatycki, the Waldberg sisters, Wallach, Rabbi Wysokier and wife, Zau…
  On the Polish Embassy's list of 41 Polish refugees (Romer's Shanghai-period papers) (Romer fonds, reel C-10452, frame 628, entry 41): ZAUBERMAN Irena, born 1901; passport 237/729/V/XI/41, Tokio 19.V.41, do 8.12.43 — Should she be parted from her husband, wishes to go to Canada or other British Empire territory, where she could count on appropriate Polish care.
• Takayoshi Iwata, "Kobe and Jewish Refugees" (神戸とユダヤ難民), Kobe City history bulletin no. 26, March 2017 — English translation published by the City of Kobe
  She and her husband reached Kobe in mid-February 1941 and lived for about a month in a storeroom rented from a Japanese lawyer's office on Yamamoto-dōri, the community's houses being full. (Takayoshi Iwata, 'Kobe and Jewish Refugees', Kobe City history bulletin no. 26 (2017), English translation published by the City of Kobe.)

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