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 — LEDGER ENTRY READ: 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)