Markus Juwiler

Markus Juwiler received transit visa no. 1834 at the Japanese consulate in Kaunas on 16 August 1940. The register records editor, aged 36.

What the register records

Nationality as recorded

Lithuanien

Age in 1940

36

Occupation

Editor

The journey

Reached Japan; registered in Kobe for USA.

Where this comes from

• 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 2498, Markus Juwiler, born 1904 at Warszawa, who came from Warszawa; the year agrees with the register's compiled age.
• 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…
  Entry 79 of the Kobe Jewish Community's refugee register: aged 37, born at Warsaw, an editor, who travelled from Vilnius.
• 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 25 Jan 1941 (line 1834)
• "California, Los Angeles, Passenger Lists, 1907-1948", FamilySearch — index entry for Markus Juwiler or Juiyiler, 1941: born about 1905, Poland. Digitised from NARA microfilm publication M1764 (passenger lists of vessels arriving at Los…
  FamilySearch's index of the Los Angeles passenger lists, read by the archive on 20 September 2026, has Markus Juwiler or Juiyiler, born about 1905 in Poland, arriving at Los Angeles in 1941. The register's compiled line gives 1904, and the two are 1 year apart. The name occurs once on the register, and a Polish-born passenger landing at Los Angeles in 1941 fits the route through Japan, so the entry is taken as this person's under the archive's rule of 19 September 2026 for records from the route.
• Leads — the Yiddish press of New York and Latin America, 1945–1975 (National Library of Israel, Historical Jewish Press)
  A possible record, not yet confirmed as this person: a Mark Uveeler (Juwiler) was executive secretary and then executive director of YIVO in New York in the 1950s, reported in the Yiddish press of São Paulo and Mexico City (National Library of Israel, Historical Jewish Press).

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