Wertans Jakob

Wertans Jakob received transit visa no. 1443 at the Japanese consulate in Kaunas on 7 August 1940. The register records engineer, aged 49.

What the register records

Nationality as recorded

Polnisch

Age in 1940

49

Occupation

Engineer

Family, per the Kitade-Bluman list

husband of #577, child Nina (7)

The journey

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

Travelled with, and never given a number

• Nina — child, aged 7

The register recorded visa holders. It did not reliably record the wives and children who travelled on somebody else’s visa, so these people have no entry of their own and cannot be searched for. Where the archive has recovered a name, it is here.

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 1473); the names closely match this register line — approved by the owner's review, 19 Aug 2026 — LEDGER ENTRY READ: Wertans Jakob, ENGINEER, born 17 August 1890 Warsaw, married ('3 persons') — wife JUDYF born 3 March 1901 Wilno (the register's No.577 Judith Wertans) and daughter NINA born 17 April 1932; 925/1 Avenue Joffre; registered 13 December 1941 on a passport issued by the Shanghai consulate itself (W-101, 5 December 1941).