Zygmunt Kerner

Zygmunt Kerner received transit visa no. 149 at the Japanese consulate in Kaunas on 29 July 1940. The register records lawyer, aged 40.

What the register records

Nationality as recorded

Polnisch

Age in 1940

40

Occupation

Lawyer

Family, per the Kitade-Bluman list

husband of #148, daughter Bella (5)

The journey

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

Travelled with, and never given a number

• Bella — daughter, aged 5

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

• List of Refugees, Vilna, 1940 — JDC Archives, New York, collection AR 33/44, file 00876. The contemporary register of Polish Jewish refugees in Lithuania, running to more than nine thousand numbered entries; the fullest independent check…
  8652, Krakow, 1900, from Krakow
• The Kobe relatives list — refugees at Kobe in 1941 recorded with their relatives abroad. Seventy-six pages in numbered sheets (LIST No. 7, No. 16 and others), each line giving a name, age, birthplace, occupation and citizenship, and then…
  130, 1900 Krakow; father Jonas Wortsman Tel Aviv, aunt Dora Cukier Brooklyn
• The JEWCOM register — the refugee register kept by the Refugee Committee of the Jewish Community of Kobe (Ashkenazim) at No. 6 Yamamoto-dori, 1-chome, whose cable address was 'JEWCOM Kobe'. Eighty-four pages on the committee's own printe…
  350, 41, b. Krakow, Lawyer, from Vilno
• 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 1279) — the consulate's register of Polish citizens who reached the city, 1934-1943 — LEDGER ENTRY READ: Kerner Zygmunt, ADVOCATE, born 1900 Krakow, married; registered 12 November 1941; 1173/50 Bubbling Well Road, tel. 37913; Warsaw passport of 29 May 1939 extended by the Embassy in Tokyo 6 August 1941.
• 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 24 Feb 1941 (line 149)