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 — the ledger reads: 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)
• UNRRA China Office, S-1132-0000-0181, registration of Polish rabbis and rabbinical students, their lists and sailings, Shanghai 1945–1946 (UN Archives, AG-018-001)
  UNRRA's China Office registered him in Shanghai in 1946 among the Polish rabbis and rabbinical students; he wished to go on to Palestine. (United Nations Archives, UNRRA China Office records.)
• UNRRA China Office, S-1132-0000-0181, Mizrachi members list and the United Board of Rabbis' birth-data pages, Shanghai 1945–46 (UN Archives, AG-018-001)
  The United Board of Rabbis and Rabbinical Colleges in Shanghai listed him among its members after the war, born in 1918 in Radom. (United Nations Archives, UNRRA China Office records.)
• Polish rabbis and rabbinical students registered with UNRRA, Shanghai (United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration, China Office;… — United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, Holocaust Survivors and Victims Database, list 48676
  The United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration's Shanghai register of Polish rabbis and rabbinical students, indexed by the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, has Uszer Najman, rabbinical student, arrived in China in 1941, wishing to go to Palestine. The name occurs once on the register; the list is of the refugees who came from Vilna by way of Kobe, and an arrival in Shanghai in 1941 is the route this line is recorded as taking.
• HaTzofe, 10 April 1942 (National Library of Israel, Historical Jewish Press)
  Uszer (Asher Zelig) Najman and his brother Moszek, students of the Lublin yeshiva, are together on HaTzofe's list of the yeshiva refugees in Shanghai, printed on 10 April 1942 (National Library of Israel, Historical Jewish Press).
• La-karov ve-la-rachok, 3 October 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 in La-karov ve-la-rachok on 3 October 1946, lists Moszek Najman, born in 1920 at Radom, and with him his brother Usher Zelik, born in 1918. Sugihara's ledger lost the first letter of his given name; the list has it as Usher.

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