Perla Taraszczanski

Perla Taraszczanski received transit visa no. 903 at the Japanese consulate in Kaunas on 3 August 1940. Aged 42 in 1940.

What the register records

Nationality as recorded

Polnisch

Age in 1940

42

Family, per the Kitade-Bluman list

wife of #1057, child Izaak (9)

The journey

Reached Japan; aided by the Polish ambassador Tadeusz Romer; registered in Kobe for USA.

Travelled with, and never given a number

• Izaak — child, aged 9

The register recorded visa holders. It did not reliably record the wives and children who travelled on somebody else’s visa, so these people have no entry of their own and cannot be searched for. Where the archive has recovered a name, it is here.

Where this comes from

• 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 13 Feb 1941 (line 903)
• "California, San Francisco, Passenger Lists, 1893-1953", FamilySearch — index entry for Perla Taraszczanski, 1941: born about 1899, Poland. Digitised from NARA microfilm publication M1410 (passenger lists of vessels arriving at San Franc…
  FamilySearch's index of the San Francisco passenger lists, read by the archive on 20 September 2026, has Perla Taraszczanski, born about 1899 in Poland, arriving at San Francisco in 1941. The register's compiled line gives 1898, and the two are 1 year apart. The name occurs once on the register, and a Polish-born passenger landing at San Francisco in 1941 fits the route through Japan, so the entry is taken as this person's under the archive's rule of 19 September 2026 for records from the route.
• JDC Archives, New York, collection AR 33/44 file 53 (the Jewish Community of Kobe's returns to the JDC, 1941; Set I, item 00761) — Set I pp. 24–32 — April 1941 (and a May continuation sheet)
  She left Yokohama on the Asama Maru on 26 April 1941, bound for the USA (the Jewish Community of Kobe's list of refugees who left Japan in April 1941 (JDC Archives, AR 33/44 file 53)). The list reads: "″ Perla". (Asama Maru, Yokohama, 26 April 1941, the USA.)
• Vermont, Franklin, St. Albans, Canadian Border Crossings, 1895-1954 — FamilySearch, index entries read 24 October 2026
  FamilySearch's index of the St. Albans border crossings, read on 24 October 2026, has Perla Szturn Taraszczanski, aged 43, and a second card for a Taraszczanski child. The register has Perla Taraszczanski, aged 42 in 1940, wife of Salomon, who travelled with her husband and a child from Yokohama in April 1941. The surname occurs twice on the register, as husband and wife, and her age and given name agree, so the entry is taken as this woman. The index gives the date only as a range, 1924 to 1952.

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