Cukier Majer

Cukier Majer received transit visa no. 1886 at the Japanese consulate in Kaunas on 17 August 1940. The register records linotypist, aged 30.

What the register records

Nationality as recorded

Polnisch

Age in 1940

30

Occupation

Linotypist

The journey

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

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…
  Nr.845, b.Stoczek 1920, from Stoczek
• 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…
  1910 Izbica; Polish; brother I.Cukier Rischon Lecion schunat aviva Palestine
• 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…
  #96, age 31, b. Izbica, linotypist, arr 13.2, from Kovno
• hunt/webhunt: Meyer Zucker — forward.com
  Jennifer A. Stern, 'Hiding from the Nazis in Japan', The Forward, 13 August 2025 - an interview with the Yiddish scholar Sheva Zucker about her father. Meyer Zucker, aged 30, a Bundist who fled Warsaw in 1939, received a visa at the Japanese consulate in Kovno in August 1940, crossed by the Trans-Si
• hunt/jdc_shanghai: JDC Shanghai migration file: CUKIER Majer
  JDC Archives, New York collection AR3344, 'Complete Shanghai Migration Files' (NY_AR3344_00014), page 162: CUKIER Majer, file no. 10231. Match: register No.1886 'Cukier Majer', and the register independently records this person as reaching Shanghai. Both name parts agree. NOTE: the index carries no
• 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 1297) — the consulate's register of Polish citizens who reached the city, 1934-1943
• 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 13 Feb 1941 (line 1886)
• United States National Archives, Record Group 84 — Records of the Foreign Service Posts of the Department of State: 'Classified Visa Files, 1946-1951', U.S. Consulate General, Shanghai (NAID 2123997; HMS/MLR entry UD 2335-A; accession NN…
  Named in the applicant list for the Shanghai visa files as “Cukier, Majer” — the same name, in the same order, as this register line. He was a linotypist of Izbica, born about 1910, who reached Japan on 13 February 1941 and went on to Shanghai, where he registered with the Polish consulate and opened a file with the Joint. A post-war American visa application from Shanghai is exactly what should come next in that sequence.