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 — the ledger reads: 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… — 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. 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.
• La-karov ve-la-rachok, 29 August 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 29 August 1946, lists Usher Merzel: born 1918 at Tyrawa, a bookkeeper, arrived in 1941 from Lithuania by way of Siberia; the year agrees with the age the register gives, the name occurs once on the register, and an arrival in Shanghai in 1941 from Lithuania is the Sugihara route itself, so the archive attaches it under its rule of 19 September 2026 (National Library of Israel, Historical Jewish Press).

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