Drezner Moszek

Drezner Moszek received transit visa no. 1566 at the Japanese consulate in Kaunas on 9 August 1940. The register records manufacturer, aged 43.

What the register records

Nationality as recorded

Polnisch

Age in 1940

43

Occupation

Manufacturer

Family, per the Kitade-Bluman list

daughter Miriam (17)

The journey

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

Travelled with, and never given a number

• Miriam — daughter, aged 17

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 1257) — the consulate's register of Polish citizens who reached the city, 1934-1943 — the ledger reads: Drezner Moszek Lejb, SHOPKEEPER, born 1897 Warsaw, married; registered 29 October 1941; 1248 Rue Lafayette, flat 21; Warsaw passport of 1 March 1939 extended by the British Legation in Kaunas October 1940 (D-68) and by the Embassy in Tokyo 13 September 1941; daughter MIRIAM born 1 August 1923 on his passport.
• 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 1566)
• "California, San Francisco, Passenger Lists, 1893-1953", FamilySearch — index entry for Muszek Lejb Drezner, 1947: born about 1897, Poland. Digitised from NARA microfilm publication M1410 (passenger lists of vessels arriving at San Franc…
  FamilySearch's index of the San Francisco passenger lists, read by the archive on 20 September 2026, has Muszek Lejb Drezner, born about 1897 in Poland, arriving at San Francisco in 1947 on the General M. C. Meigs. The register's compiled line gives 1897, and the two are 0 years apart, and the name occurs once on the register. The sheet names the ship but its heading could not be read for the port she sailed from, so this is held as a lead until it can. The sheet is NARA microfilm publication M1410, film 390, image 242, read by the archive on 20 September 2026.
• The JDC's Shanghai migration files, 1946–1950 — the index of emigrants from Shanghai (JDC Archives, New York, collection AR 33/44, file 14)
  Moszek Drezner is in the JDC's index of its Shanghai emigration cases as Moszek Lejb Drezner, filed among those leaving for the United States, as the register's compiled line has him. (JDC Archives, New York, AR 33/44, the Shanghai migration index)
• National Archives and Records Administration, Alien Case Files (Record Group 566), catalog descriptions read through the NARA Catalog API
  The National Archives holds an alien case file for Moszek Drezner, born 14 January 1897 in Poland, who entered the United States at San Francisco on 2 July 1947 (file A6735285, NARA catalog NAID 40203107). The name and the birth year agree with the register's line, and the port and date of entry are the route's.
• La-karov ve-la-rachok, 28 March 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 28 March 1946, lists Moszek Drezner: born 1897 at Warsaw, a merchant, arrived in 1941 from Wilno; 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).
• 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…
  The Kobe Jewish Community's refugee register lists Mojsze Lejb Drezner, aged 44, born at Warsaw, a manufacturer, who reached Japan on 24 February 1941.
• 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…
  The 1940 Vilna refugee list has, at entry 1103, Moszek Lejb Drezner, born in 1897 at Warszawa, who came from Warszawa.

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