Redler Artur

Redler Artur received transit visa no. 1843 at the Japanese consulate in Kaunas on 16 August 1940. The register records economist, aged 35.

What the register records

Nationality as recorded

Lithuanien

Age in 1940

35

Occupation

Economist

The journey

Reached Japan; reached Shanghai; registered in Kobe for Australia? or USA?.

Where this comes from

• The Kobe relatives list — refugees at Kobe in 1941 recorded with their relatives abroad. Seventy-six pages in numbered sheets (LIST No. 7, No. 16 and others), each line giving a name, age, birthplace, occupation and citizenship, and then…
  The Kobe community's list of refugees and their relatives abroad: born 1905 at Warsaw; relatives abroad: a cousin, Leon Radler, New York City; Bela Shufman, Brooklyn, New York.
• 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 556 of the Kobe Jewish Community's refugee register: aged 36, born at Warsaw, an economist, who travelled from Kaunas.
• 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 1444); the names closely match this register line — approved by the owner's review, 19 Aug 2026 — the ledger reads: Redler Artur, ECONOMIST (mag. ekon.), born 12 July 1905 Warsaw; 805/21 East Seward Road; registered 13 December 1941 on a passport issued by the Shanghai consulate itself (R-89, 4 December 1941).
• 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 14 Feb 1941 (line 1843)
• "California, San Francisco, Passenger Lists, 1893-1953", FamilySearch — index entry for Artur Redler, 1949: born about 1905, Polish. Digitised from NARA microfilm publication M1410 (passenger lists of vessels arriving at San Francisco).…
  FamilySearch's index of the San Francisco passenger lists, read by the archive on 20 September 2026, has Artur Redler, born about 1905 in Polish, arriving at San Francisco in 1949 on the General W. H. Gordon. The register's compiled line gives 1905, and the two are 0 years apart, and the name occurs once on the register. The ship's manifest heading says she sailed from Shanghai, and a passenger born in Poland landing at San Francisco in 1949 from Shanghai is the route's end: the refugees who waited out the war there. So the entry is taken as this person's under the archive's rule of 19 September 2026 for records from the route. The sheet is NARA microfilm publication M1410, film 408, image 433, read by the archive on 20 September 2026.
• List of persons processed by the American Joint Distribution Committee's migration department, Shanghai, 1–30 April 1946 (United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, Holocaust Survivors and Victims Database, list 48686)
  The American Joint Distribution Committee's migration department in Shanghai processed Artur Redler for emigration in April 1946, according to its list for that month, indexed by the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. The name occurs once on the register, and the register already records this line's arrival in Shanghai.
• 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 Artur Redler, who was in Wilno during the war. The archive attaches it under its rule of 19 September 2026: the card file is a record of the refugees in Wilno, where the road through Sugihara's visas began; the full name occurs once on the register; and the card places the person in Wilno in 1939–41, on the road to Sugihara's visas. Credit: Yad Vashem Archives.
• 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 4575, Artur Redler, born in 1905 at Warszawa, who came from Warszawa.

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