Laser Frank

Laser Frank received transit visa no. 109 at the Japanese consulate in Kaunas on 29 July 1940. The register records clerk, aged 34.

What the register records

Nationality as recorded

Polnisch

Age in 1940

34

Occupation

Clerk

Family, per the Kitade-Bluman list

wife Mina (31), son Ryszard (12)

The journey

Reached Japan; reached Shanghai; registered in Kobe for Australia.

Travelled with, and never given a number

• Mina — wife, aged 31
• Ryszard — son, aged 12

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

• 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 1499) — found on reading the ledger page itself — LEDGER ENTRY READ: Frank Lazarz (the register's 'Laser Frank'), born 8 May 1906 Warsaw; registered 14 December 1941; 609 Seward Road; Tokyo-issued passport of 3 December 1941 — found on reading the page.
• 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 109)