Bajer Izaak Ber

Bajer Izaak Ber received transit visa no. 1284 at the Japanese consulate in Kaunas on 6 August 1940. The register records physician, aged 36.

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What the register records

Nationality as recorded

Polnisch

Age in 1940

36

Occupation

Physician

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 5 of the Kobe community's list of refugees and their relatives abroad: aged 28, born at Lublin, a physician; relatives abroad: a cousin, H. Bayer, 227 Beatrice Street, Toronto, Canada; Mount Shapiro, Brooklyn, New York; a cousin, L. Milrod, 3126 Coney Island.
• 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 1225); the register line's repaired reading and the ledger agree exactly — matched on the repaired register name, approved under the owner's review of 19 Aug 2026 — the ledger reads: Bajer Izaak-Ber, PHYSICIAN (lekarz), born 1903 Lublin, married; registered 14 October 1941; 370/12 Rue Bourgeat (earlier 512 Avenue Haig); Tokyo-issued passport of 1 May 1941 (Ser. II 290653) on a British Legation Kaunas certificate of 3 April 1940.
• Tadeusz Romer papers, Library and Archives Canada, MG 31 D 68, vol. 2 (microfilm reel C-10451, frame 1088): 'Lista obywateli polskich ewakuowanych z Dalekiego Wschodu… — cited by link only (Canadiana Heritage); frame image not republished
  Named on the Polish Embassy's list of Polish citizens evacuated from the Far East on the exchange ship s/s Kamakura Maru, Shanghai, 16 August 1942 — one of the 41 'civilian refugees' for whom Ambassador Romer obtained places (evacuee no. 61, 'BAJER Dr. Izaak Ber'); the party sailed with Romer to Lourenco Marques and most went on to England
• Library and Archives Canada, Tadeusz Romer fonds, MG 31 D 68, reel C-10452, frame 625, via Canadiana Heritage — a Polish Embassy list of 41 Polish refugees, filed among Romer's Shanghai-period papers — page 1, entries 1-10 (Bajer, Bram a…
  On the Polish Embassy's list of 41 Polish refugees (Romer's Shanghai-period papers) (Romer fonds, reel C-10452, frame 625, entry 1): BAJER Izaak Ber, Dr. med., born 1903; passport B:145/6/18/42, Szanghaj 9.I.42, do 9.I.45 — No visa. Wishes to go to Canada, failing that to the Union of South Africa.
• La-karov ve-la-rachok, 21 March 1946 — the Far Eastern Palestine Committee's list of Jewish refugees in Shanghai (National Library of Israel, Historical Jewish Press)
  The Far Eastern Palestine Committee's list of Jewish refugees in Shanghai, printed by the Jewish Agency Search Bureau's bulletin La-karov ve-la-rachok on 21 March 1946, lists Isaak Ber Bajer: born 1903 at Lublin, a physician, arrived in 1941 from Wilno; the year, the town and the trade agree with the Kobe community's list of refugees and their relatives (National Library of Israel, Historical Jewish Press).
• Yad Vashem Archives, Jerusalem — the card file of Jewish refugees from Poland who found refuge in various countries, 1939–1941
  Yad Vashem's card file of Jewish refugees from Poland who found refuge in various countries, 1939–1941, has a card for Izaak Bajer, aged 36, of Warsaw, who was in Wilno during the war. The archive attaches it under its rule of 19 September 2026: the card file is a record of the refugees in Wilno, where the road through Sugihara's visas began; the full name occurs once on the register; and the card places the person in Wilno in 1939–41, on the road to Sugihara's visas. Credit: Yad Vashem Archives.
• Shanghai Ledger, page 153 (left): entries 1218-1225, registered 13-14 October 1… — on expired Berlin-consulate passports), Dr Bajer Izaak-Ber (physician, b. 1903 Lublin). Library of Congress digitisation of the Polish Consulate's register
• Shanghai Ledger, page 153 (right): entries 1218-1225, registered 13-14 October… — on expired Berlin-consulate passports), Dr Bajer Izaak-Ber (physician, b. 1903 Lublin). Library of Congress digitisation of the Polish Consulate's register
• Tadeusz Romer papers, Library and Archives Canada, MG 31 D 68, vol. 2 (microfilm reel C-10451, frame 1087): 'Lista obywateli polskich ewakuowanych z Dalekiego Wschodu… — cited by link only (Canadiana Heritage); frame image not republished
• Library and Archives Canada, Tadeusz Romer fonds, MG 31 D 68, reel C-10452, frame 625, via Canadiana Heritage — a Polish Embassy list of 41 Polish refugees, filed among Romer's Shanghai-period papers — page 1, entries 1-10 (Bajer, Bram a…

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