Szlama Uszer Schwarzman

Szlama Uszer Schwarzman received transit visa no. 1824 at the Japanese consulate in Kaunas on 16 August 1940. The register records electrician, aged 23.

What the register records

Nationality as recorded

Lithuanien

Age in 1940

23

Occupation

Electrician

The journey

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

Where this comes from

• Mark Halpern correspondence (9 Aug 2026): Netherlands Legation certificate, Tokyo, 18 March 1941 — Minister J.C. Pabst certifies that 74 named persons of Polish nationality "do not need a Netherlands visa in order to proceed to the Nethe…
  Amakusa Maru 74 — Netherlands Legation certificate (Tokyo, 18 Mar 1941), line 7. Cross-referenced by Mark Halpern, researcher (Aug 2026); archive pass concurs. register row reads Szlama Szer Schwarzman.
• 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 1520) — found on reading the ledger page itself — LEDGER ENTRY READ: Schwarzmann Szlama Uszer, ELECTRICIAN, born 24 May 1917 Wegrow; 54/6 Kwenming Road; registered 14 December 1941 on a passport issued by the Shanghai consulate itself (S-248, 4 December 1941) — found on reading the page.