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)