Merzel Uszer

Merzel Uszer received transit visa no. 1405 at the Japanese consulate in Kaunas on 7 August 1940. The register records student, aged 22.

What the register records

Nationality as recorded

Polnisch

Age in 1940

22

Occupation

Student

The journey

Reached Japan; reached Shanghai.

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 1427); the names closely match this register line — approved by the owner's review, 19 Aug 2026 — LEDGER ENTRY READ: Merzel Uszer, student, born 15 January 1918 Tyrawa Woloska, single; 35 Moulmein Road; Tokyo-issued passport of 3 December 1941 — found on reading the page.
• 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. 89, 'MERZEL Usser'); 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 627, via Canadiana Heritage — the same list, page 3, entries 23-32 (Lewkowicz, Lifszyc brother and sister, Mann, Marber, Matecka, Merzel, Pikielny, Pinus,…
  On the Polish Embassy's list of 41 Polish refugees (Romer's Shanghai-period papers) (Romer fonds, reel C-10452, frame 627, entry 29): MERZEL Uszer, rabin, born 1918; passport M:116/1/19/41, Szanghaj 20.V.42, do 8.12.43 — Holds no visa. Wishes to go to the USA or the Union of South Africa, but gives no reasons for these countries.