Mendelson Manas

Mendelson Manas received transit visa no. 1869 at the Japanese consulate in Kaunas on 17 August 1940. The register records merchant, aged 46.

What the register records

Nationality as recorded

Polnisch

Age in 1940

46

Occupation

Merchant

The journey

Reached Japan; reached Shanghai; aided by the Polish ambassador Tadeusz Romer; registered in Kobe for Palestine and then 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…
  Entry 202 of the Kobe community's list of refugees and their relatives abroad: aged 47, born at Warsaw, a merchant; relatives abroad: brothers-in-law, Shulem Wieblond, Rehow Haalija 16, Tel Aviv, and Hyman Shchipior, 794 Gerin Avenue, New York.
• 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 12. Cross-referenced by Mark Halpern, researcher (Aug 2026); archive pass concurs.
• The list of seventy-four — Netherlands Legation, Tokyo, 18 March 1941. On the Legation's letterhead (Gezantschap der Nederlanden), certifying 'that the undermentioned persons all of Polish nationality do not need a Netherlands visa in or…
  Named at position 12 of seventy-four on the Netherlands Legation's certificate of 18 March 1941 — the list of the people who reached Tsuruga on Sugihara's transit visas without a Curaçao endorsement, were refused permission to land, and whose ship was turned back towards Vladivostok. The Legation typed the name as "Mendelson Manus". A pencilled note beside it gives this register number, which is how the two records are joined.
• HaMashkif, 18 and 19 September 1941, and HaBoker, 25 September 1941 (National Library of Israel, Historical Jewish Press)
  A possible record, not yet confirmed as this person: a Mendelson in Japan sent a greeting in September 1941 to his son, care of Shalom Wieblond in Tel Aviv (HaMashkif, 18 September; HaBoker, 25 September 1941) (National Library of Israel, Historical Jewish Press). Wieblond was Manas Mendelson's brother-in-law, but the column prints the sender as Meir, so it is shown as a lead.
• Haaretz, 2 February 1942, and HaTzofe, 3 February 1942 (National Library of Israel, Historical Jewish Press)
  Manas Mendelson is on the list of immigrants on their way from India to the Land of Israel printed by Haaretz on 2 February 1942 and HaTzofe on 3 February (National Library of Israel, Historical Jewish Press).

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