Jenta Sokol

Jenta Sokol received transit visa no. 810 at the Japanese consulate in Kaunas on 2 August 1940. Aged 50 in 1940.

What the register records

Nationality as recorded

Polnisch

Age in 1940

50

Family, per the Kitade-Bluman list

wife of #225

The journey

Reached Japan; reached Shanghai; aided by the Polish ambassador Tadeusz Romer; registered in Kobe for Australia.

Where this comes from

• 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 308 of the Kobe community's list of refugees and their relatives abroad: aged 50, born at Trzciana, Polish; listed under Abram Sokol, entry 307.
• "Escape from the Nazis — two years to reach here", The Australian Jewish Herald (Melbourne), 17 July 1941, p. 1: Oskar Wajsbrem, his wife and her parents Mr and Mrs Sokol, newly arrived from Japan
  The Australian Jewish Herald of 17 July 1941 reported the arrival in Melbourne of Mr and Mrs Sokol with their daughter and her husband Oskar Wajsbrem, two years after leaving Poland and after three months in Kobe. The register's Jenta Sokol, 50, wife of Abram (No. 225), is Mrs Sokol; her grave in Melbourne gives her maiden name as Makow.
• Find a Grave memorials 200228079, 200228078 and 200228038 — Oskar Wajsbrem (1909–6 Jan 1997), Helen Wajsbrem née Sokol (12 Apr 1922–9 Mar 1980) and Abram Sokol (1890–31 Dec 1958, St Kilda), with Jetta Makon Sokol (1890–1969); Jewish sect…
  The grave records of the Melbourne General Cemetery give Jetta Makon Sokol, 1890–1969, wife of Abram Sokol (died 1958), buried in the Jewish section. The register's Jenta Sokol, 50 in 1940, is Jetta; Makow was her maiden name.
• 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.

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