Leib Mann

Leib Mann received transit visa no. 243 at the Japanese consulate in Kaunas on 30 July 1940. The register records manufacturer, aged 50.

What the register records

Nationality as recorded

Polnisch

Age in 1940

50

Occupation

Manufacturer

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…
  3700, Mosty Wielkie, 1890
• 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 1281) — the consulate's register of Polish citizens who reached the city, 1934-1943 — LEDGER ENTRY READ: Mann Leib-Hersz, FILM INDUSTRIALIST (przemyslowiec filmowy), born 23 March 1890 Mosty Wielkie, married; 822C Avenue Joffre; passport M-103 issued by the Shanghai consulate 7 November 1941.
• Tadeusz Romer papers, Library and Archives Canada, MG 31 D 68, vol. 2 (microfilm reel C-10451, frame 1088): 'Lista obywateli polskich ewakuowanych z Dalekiego Wschodu', page 2 — Kamakura Maru, Shanghai 16 August 1942: officials (the Rome…
  Named on the Polish Embassy's list of Polish citizens evacuated from the Far East on the exchange ship s/s Kamakura Maru, Shanghai, 16 August 1942 — one of the 41 'civilian refugees' for whom Ambassador Romer obtained places (evacuee no. 86, 'MANN Lejb Hirsz'); the party sailed with Romer to Lourenco Marques and most went on to England
• Library and Archives Canada, Tadeusz Romer fonds, MG 31 D 68, reel C-10452, frame 627, via Canadiana Heritage — the same list, page 3, entries 23-32 (Lewkowicz, Lifszyc brother and sister, Mann, Marber, Matecka, Merzel, Pikielny, Pinus,…
  On the Polish Embassy's list of 41 Polish refugees (Romer's Shanghai-period papers) (Romer fonds, reel C-10452, frame 627, entry 26): MANN Lejb-Hirsz, kupiec (merchant), born 1890; passport M:103/1/18/41, Szanghaj 7.11.41, do 8.12.43 — Holds no visa. Wishes to go to the USA or Canada, where he has family, or to England, where he has extensive commercial relations.