Redel Dawid

Redel Dawid received transit visa no. 1065 at the Japanese consulate in Kaunas on 5 August 1940. The register records dyer, aged 55.

What the register records

Nationality as recorded

Polnisch

Age in 1940

55

Occupation

Dyer

The journey

Reached Japan; reached Shanghai.

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 266 of the Kobe community's list of refugees and their relatives abroad: aged 56, born at Warsaw, a dyer; relatives abroad: a cousin, Ph. Goldblatt, 119 Coster Avenue, Brooklyn, New York; a cousin, S. Weingarten, Cumberland Hotel, London.
• The Shanghai Ledger — register of Polish citizens kept by the Consulate of Poland in Shanghai, 1934-1943 (original at the Archives of the Polish Ministry of Foreign Affairs, ref. 43/2003; digitised by the Library of Congress; indexed as…
  Registered with the Polish Consulate in Shanghai (ledger entry 1117); the names closely match this register line — approved by the owner's review, 19 Aug 2026 — the ledger reads: Redel Dawid, dyer and industrialist, born 1885 Warsaw, WIDOWER; 188 Avenue du Roi Albert, Kelmscott Gardens 5; Tokyo-issued passport of 23 April 1941 (Ser. II 290644) on a British Legation Kaunas certificate of 18 November 1939 (R-247).
• "California, San Francisco, Passenger Lists, 1893-1953", FamilySearch — index entry for Dawid Redel, 1949: born about 1886, Poland. Digitised from NARA microfilm publication M1410 (passenger lists of vessels arriving at San Francisco). S…
  FamilySearch's index of the San Francisco passenger lists, read by the archive on 20 September 2026, has Dawid Redel, born about 1886 in Poland, arriving at San Francisco in 1949 on the General M. C. Meigs. The register's compiled line gives 1885, and the two are 1 year apart, and the name occurs once on the register. The ship's manifest heading says she sailed from Shanghai, and a passenger born in Poland landing at San Francisco in 1949 from Shanghai is the route's end: the refugees who waited out the war there. So the entry is taken as this person's under the archive's rule of 19 September 2026 for records from the route. The sheet is NARA microfilm publication M1410, film 402, image 822, read by the archive on 20 September 2026.
• American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee, Far Eastern Office, Shanghai: the list of persons who left Shanghai on the S.S. General Meigs and the S.S. Breckenridge on 1 January 1949, sent to the American Consulate General on 10 January…
  On 10 January 1949 the Joint's Far Eastern Office sent the American Consulate General at Shanghai its list of the people who had left Shanghai on the S.S. General Meigs on 1 January 1949. No. 117 on it is David Redel, Polish, bound for Poland. The register writes Dawid; its typed line has lost the first letter of the surname, and the list supplies it. The name is matched to this line because the full name occurs once on the register, the list is the Joint's own record of refugees leaving Shanghai, and a Polish refugee in Shanghai in 1949 is where the move from Kobe in 1941 had left the people of this register. The list gives no age and no birthplace.

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