Apotheker Dawid

Apotheker Dawid received transit visa no. 1654 at the Japanese consulate in Kaunas on 13 August 1940.

What the register records

Nationality as recorded

Polnisch

Family, per the Kitade-Bluman list

wife and child

Where this comes from

• USHMM Holocaust Survivors and Victims Database, Flight and Rescue electronic dataset — entry for Dawid Apotheker: Polish, transit visa issued 13 Aug 1940, line number 1654
  USHMM Flight and Rescue dataset: Polish, transit visa 13 Aug 1940, line 1654 — the exhibition's compilers place him at this row, not No.1300 — NOTE (24 Aug 2026): the exhibition compilers' reading places the name at this line; the archive's record of David of Bardejov now sits at No. 1300 on the owner's ruling, and this line stands as the Polish Dawid who never came.
• Library and Archives Canada, Tadeusz Romer fonds, MG 31 D 68, reel C-10451, frame 1067, via Canadiana Heritage — radiogram from the Polish Embassy (Polmission) at Kuybyshev to Ambassador Romer, 26 Route Delastre, Shanghai, received 14 Ju…
  This line is the POLISH Dawid Apotheker — the man who telegraphed his Kobe friends from Vilnius and never came (Jacob Rosen; Bluman: did not reach Japan). The July-1942 radiogram to 'Apotheker, 704 Joffre' belongs to David of Bardejov, No. 1300, where the record now sits (owner ruling, 24 Aug 2026).
• Telegram filed at Vilnius and addressed to JEWCOM, care of Halina Jakubowicz, Kobe, concerning David Apotheker. Supplied to the archive by Jacob Rosen-Koenigsbuch.
  The Vilnius telegram, given by Jacob Rosen-Koenigsbuch in August 2026 — the document behind the family's account of the OTHER David Apotheker. A telegram form of the Japanese posts, filed at Vilnius ('109 VILNIUS 242 17 15 2035 TOK'), addressed 'JEWCOM HALINA JAKUBOWICZ KOBE' — that is, to the Kobe Jewish community, care of Halina Jakubowicz — and reading, in telegraphese German: 'UEBERWACHET JEWCOM RASCHESTE ERLEDIGUNG SHANGHAI PERMITE DRAHTET TRAIDENIO 14 MARJAN MIRVEEK DAWID APOTHEKER' — supervise Jewcom for the quickest issue of the Shanghai permits, wire to Traidenio 14. Traidenio gatve 14 is an address in VILNIUS; the three senders are Marjan, Mirveek (reading uncertain) and Dawid Apotheker. So a David Apotheker was still in Vilnius, pressing Kobe for Shanghai permits, at the date of this cable. The Japanese receiving stamp appears to read 1941, which is not confirmed, and the signatories' given names are read from a photocopy. Jacob's annotations in red gloss the Japanese: c/o, 'Jews', 'community', and the clerk's name Yamamoto. A second reading on 25 August 2026, against the scan at full resolution, confirmed the wording except the second signature word, better read MIRY… A second reading on 25 August 2026, against the scan at full resolution, confirmed the wording except the second signature word, better read MIRYLEK than MIRVEEK — which suggests TWO senders, 'Marjan Mirylek' and 'Dawid Apotheker', rather than three ('Mirveek' is no given name; 'Marjan Mirylek' is a natural Polish forename+surname).
• UNRRA China Office, S-1132-0000-0183, Repatriation — correspondence, with the list of Polish refugees wishing to return to Poland, Shanghai 1946 (UN Archives, AG-018-001)
  UNRRA's China Office repatriated a David Apotheker, travelling on a Czechoslovak passport, from Shanghai to Czechoslovakia on the Sontay at the end of 1946; whether he is this entry on the register or the other David Apotheker on the register is not known. (United Nations Archives, UNRRA China Office records.)
• La-karov ve-la-rachok, 21 March 1946 — the Far Eastern Palestine Committee's list of Jewish refugees in Shanghai (National Library of Israel, Historical Jewish Press)
  A possible record, not yet confirmed as this person: the Far Eastern Palestine Committee's list of Jewish refugees in Shanghai, printed in La-karov ve-la-rachok on 21 March 1946, lists David Apotheker, born 1908 at Bardenow, in the textile trade, arrived in 1941 from Kaunas (National Library of Israel, Historical Jewish Press).

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