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

Reached Japan; reached Shanghai; registered in Kobe for USA.

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 8418, Malka Szapiro, born 1916 at Warszawa, who had come from Warszawa; the year agrees with the register's compiled age.
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…
Entry 250 of the Kobe community's list of refugees and their relatives abroad: born 1916 at Warsaw; relatives abroad: a cousin, Rabbi Samuel Ehrenfeld, New York; an 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)
The numbered Sugihara visa list, the page of 2 August 1940 carrying Nos. 795 to 865 (among them No. 805, Szaps Jaskolka), photographed beside a ruler.