Rapoport Ewa

Rapoport Ewa received transit visa no. 1530 at the Japanese consulate in Kaunas on 7 August 1940. Aged 38 in 1940.

What the register records

Nationality as recorded

Polnisch

Age in 1940

38

Family, per the Kitade-Bluman list

wife of #1528

The journey

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

Where this comes from

• The JEWCOM register — the refugee register kept by the Refugee Committee of the Jewish Community of Kobe (Ashkenazim) at No. 6 Yamamoto-dori, 1-chome, whose cable address was 'JEWCOM Kobe'. Eighty-four pages on the committee's own printe…
  no.554, age 40, b. Warsaw, from Vilno
• 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 14 Feb 1941 (line 1530)
• M.S. Hie Maru, Kobe 4 May – Yokohama 7 May – Seattle 18 May 1941, sheet 2 of 11 — transcribed for the Immigrant Ships Transcribers Guild by David Rosen
  Hie Maru passenger no. 39; 39y 8m; Housewife; b. Warsaw, Poland; last residence Vilnus, Lithuania; US visa Q.I.V.1841, issued Yokohama, 5-2-1941; to N.Y., N.Y.; joining Uncle-in-law, Samuel Finkielstein, 91 Payson Ave. N.Y.; nearest relative left behind: No relative, 8 Tilto, Vilnus
• "Washington, King, Seattle, Passenger Lists, 1890-1957", FamilySearch — index entry for Ewa Rapoport, 1941: born about 1902, Poland. Digitised from NARA microfilm publication M1383 (passenger and crew lists of vessels arriving at Seattle…
  FamilySearch's index of the Seattle passenger lists, read by the archive on 20 September 2026, has Ewa Rapoport, born about 1902 in Poland, arriving at Seattle in 1941. The register's compiled line gives 1902, and the two agree. The name occurs once on the register, and a Polish-born passenger landing at Seattle 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.