Scheffer Mejer

Scheffer Mejer received transit visa no. 1647 at the Japanese consulate in Kaunas on 13 August 1940. The register records merchant, aged 27.

What the register records

Nationality as recorded

Polnisch

Age in 1940

27

Occupation

Merchant

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 1496); the register line's dropped first letters restored, the names agree — approved by the owner's review, 19 Aug 2026 — the ledger reads: Scheffer vel Zef Meier, merchant, born 1912, married; 685 Seward Road 4/2; Tokyo-issued passport of 2 December 1941.
• Yad Vashem Archives, Jerusalem — the card file of Jewish refugees from Poland who found refuge in various countries, 1939–1941
  Yad Vashem's card file of Jewish refugees from Poland who found refuge in various countries, 1939–1941, has a card for Meier Szefer, a merchant born in 1912, of Dortmund, who was in Wilno during the war; the year and the trade agree with this register line. Credit: Yad Vashem Archives.

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