Langer Mozes

Langer Mozes received transit visa no. 2032 at the Japanese consulate in Kaunas on 20 August 1940. The register records rabbinical student, aged 28.

What the register records

Nationality as recorded

Polish

Age in 1940

28

Occupation

Rabbinical Student

Family, per the Kitade-Bluman list

wife Smyra

The journey

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

What is known

Moshe Langer, a Sugihara survivor, received a Sugihara visa which saved his life. He never met Sugihara personally but credited the visa with allowing him to survive the war.

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…
  2797, b.1396
• 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 53. Cross-referenced by Mark Halpern, researcher (Aug 2026); archive pass concurs.
• 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 1083); the names closely match this register line — approved by the owner's review, 19 Aug 2026 — LEDGER ENTRY READ: Langer Moses Izaak, WEAVER (tkacz), born 15 June 1912 Wielopole, single; registered 30 July 1941; 17/2 Yulin Road; passport L-61 issued by the Shanghai consulate 26 July 1941.
• 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 53 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 "Langer Mozes Izak". A pencilled note beside it gives this register number, which is how the two records are joined.
• Sugihara Virtual Exhibit — Solly Ganor
• Shanghai Ledger, page 136 (left): entries 1082-1089, registered 29 July - 16 August 1941: Rozenblat Stanislaw (lawyer, b. 1911 Warsaw; wife Mira b. 1915 Vienna — Tamai Hotel), Langer Moses Izaak (weaver, b. 15 Jun 1912 Wielopole), Rabbi…
• Shanghai Ledger, page 136 (right): entries 1082-1089, registered 29 July - 16 August 1941: Rozenblat Stanislaw (lawyer, b. 1911 Warsaw; wife Mira b. 1915 Vienna — Tamai Hotel), Langer Moses Izaak (weaver, b. 15 Jun 1912 Wielopole), Rabbi…