Mejer Liberman

Mejer Liberman received transit visa no. 428 at the Japanese consulate in Kaunas on 30 July 1940. The register records rabbi, aged 46.

What the register records

Nationality as recorded

Polnisch

Age in 1940

46

Occupation

Rabbi

Family, per the Kitade-Bluman list

wife Genia (42), children (Abram (2), Szulamit (8))

The journey

Reached Japan; registered in Kobe for USA.

Travelled with, and never given a number

• Genia — wife, aged 42
• Abram — child, aged 2
• Szulamit — child, aged 8

The register recorded visa holders. It did not reliably record the wives and children who travelled on somebody else’s visa, so these people have no entry of their own and cannot be searched for. Where the archive has recovered a name, it is here.

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…
  3407; b.1894
• hunt/familysearch: US arrival manifest: Mejer Liberman, Seattle, 1940
  "Seattle Passenger Lists", FamilySearch, entry for Mejer Liberman, 1940. Ship: Heian Maru. Matched from the Heian Maru's Polish-born passenger list (198 people, of whom 57 matched the register). Register No.428 'Mejer Liberman' records age 46; the manifest gives born 1894, arriving 1940. Conf
• 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 925); the names closely match this register line — approved by the owner's review, 19 Aug 2026