Gasner Hersz

Gasner Hersz received transit visa no. 1870 at the Japanese consulate in Kaunas on 17 August 1940. The register records merchant, aged 41.

What the register records

Nationality as recorded

Polnisch

Age in 1940

41

Occupation

Merchant

The journey

Reached Japan; reached Shanghai; registered in Kobe for 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…
  83; age 42; b. Rzeszow; merchant; uncle Leonis Schwarz Cusgataia Clyphant
• 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 3. Cross-referenced by Mark Halpern, researcher (Aug 2026); archive pass concurs. register row reads Gasner Hersz.
• 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 1396) — found on reading the ledger page itself — LEDGER ENTRY READ: Gasner Hirsch, merchant, born 15 January 1899 Krzeszow, married; registered 13 December 1941; 305/70 Kungping Road; Tokyo-issued passport of 4 December 1941 — found on reading the page.
• 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 3 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 "Gastner Hirsz". A pencilled note beside it gives this register number, which is how the two records are joined.