Szmul-Moszek Marber

Szmul-Moszek Marber received transit visa no. 519 at the Japanese consulate in Kaunas on 31 July 1940. The register records manufacturer, aged 47.

What the register records

Nationality as recorded

Polnisch

Age in 1940

47

Occupation

Manufacturer

The journey

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

Where this comes from

• 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 24 Jan 1941 (line 519)
• 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. 87, 'MARBER Szmul Moszek'); 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 27): MARBER Szmul-Moszek, kupiec (merchant), born 1893; passport M.132/2/21/41, Szanghaj 5.12.41, do 8.12.43 — Holds a Palestine visa issued by the British Consulate Kobe No. 16088 of 28.4.41, valid to 30.6.41; Union of South Africa transit, British Consulate Kobe No. 16481 of 3.8.41; India transit, British Consulate Kobe No. 16117 of 5.4.41; Australia transit, British Consulate Kobe No. 16536 of 4.X.41; Egypt transit No. 65 of 1.V.41 valid to 30.12.41. All other transit visas valid for the validity of the Palestine visa. Should departure for Palestine be impossible, asks for Canada or South Africa.