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.

What the register records

Nationality as recorded

Polnisch

Age in 1940

36

Occupation

Physician

The journey

Reached Japan; reached Shanghai.

What is known

This is a certificate of Polish citizenship bearing a Dutch 'Surinam and Curaçao' destination visa signed by consul Jan Zwartendijk in Kaunas on 29 July 1940, together with a Japanese transit visa dated 30 July 1940 stamped by Chiune Sugihara's one-man consulate in Kaunas. The same document later received a British visa issued in Kobe, Japan on 25 July 1941, permitting onward travel to New Zealand via Australia, illustrating how a refugee's journey continued well beyond Japan. No personal name of the holder is legible in the reproduced image.

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…
  5; 28; b. Lublin; phisician; cousin H.Bayer 227 Beatrice str Toronto Canada, Mount Shapiro Brooklyn NY, 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 — LEDGER ENTRY READ: 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', page 2 — Kamakura Maru, Shanghai 16 August 1942: officials (the Rome…
  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.
• A document held in the archive's files
• Shanghai Ledger, page 153 (left): entries 1218-1225, registered 13-14 October 1941: Moszowicz Jerzy (graphic artist, b. 1910 Warsaw), Sliozberg Natan (commercial employee, b. 10 Jun 1912 Warsaw), Lifszyc Rubin (student, b. 1920 Warsaw),…
• Shanghai Ledger, page 153 (right): entries 1218-1225, registered 13-14 October 1941: Moszowicz Jerzy (graphic artist, b. 1910 Warsaw), Sliozberg Natan (commercial employee, b. 10 Jun 1912 Warsaw), Lifszyc Rubin (student, b. 1920 Warsaw),…