Malka Szapiro
Visa no. 796 · Kaunas, 2 August 1940
Malka Szapiro received transit visa no. 796 at the Japanese consulate in Kaunas on 2 August 1940. The register records teacher - beth jacob, aged 24.
What the register records Nationality as recorded Polnisch Age in 1940 24 Occupation Teacher - Beth Jacob Family, per the Kitade-Bluman list wife of #1054 The journey Reached Japan; reached Shanghai; registered in Kobe for USA.
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… 8418, Warszawa, 1916, from Warszawa 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…250, 1916 Warsaw; cousin Rabbi Samuel Ehrenfeld New York, uncle Hirsh Ajzenstat Tel Aviv 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 Feb 1941 (line 796) A document held in the archive's files Open this entry in the full register →
Malka Szapiro 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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