Najman Uszer

Najman Uszer received transit visa no. 1408 at the Japanese consulate in Kaunas on 7 August 1940. The register records rabbinical student - lublin yeshiva, aged 22.

What the register records

Nationality as recorded

Polnisch

Age in 1940

22

Occupation

Rabbinical Student - Lublin Yeshiva

Family, per the Kitade-Bluman list

brother of #1407

The journey

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

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 1434); the names closely match this register line — approved by the owner's review, 19 Aug 2026 — LEDGER ENTRY READ: Najman Uszer (the ledger writes 'Mszer') Zelik, born 16 September 1918 Radom; 35 Moulmein Road with his brother Moszek; Tokyo-issued passport of 2 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 1408)