Samuel Monderer

Samuel Monderer received transit visa no. 665 at the Japanese consulate in Kaunas on 1 August 1940. The register records distiller, aged 31.

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What the register records

Nationality as recorded

Polnisch

Age in 1940

31

Occupation

Distiller

The journey

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

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…
  The 1940 Vilna refugee list has, at entry 4052, Samuel Monderer, born 1909 at Siedlce, who had come from Kraków; the year agrees with the register's age.
• 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…
  Entry 179 of the Kobe community's list of refugees and their relatives abroad gives as relatives abroad a cousin, Schendrof Lowi Joseph, Jerusalem, Palestine; a cousin, Petsenbaum Izrael Fajerberg, Tel Aviv; a cousin, Adolf Billet, 525 Barbey Street, Brooklyn, New York.
• 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…
  The Kobe Jewish Community's refugee register: aged 32, born at Strzelce, a merchant, who arrived in Japan from Vilnius on 2 February 1941.
• 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 1079); the names closely match this register line — approved by the owner's review, 19 Aug 2026 — the ledger reads: Monderer Samuel, merchant, born 1909 (Strzelce Male?), single; 54 Chusan Road, house 17; Krakow passport of 21 July 1935 extended by the British Legation in Kaunas 14 February and 8 August 1940 and by the Embassy in Tokyo 19 March 1941.
• "California, San Francisco, Passenger Lists, 1893-1953", FamilySearch — index entry for Samuel Monderer, 1947: born about 1911, Poland. Digitised from NARA microfilm publication M1410 (passenger lists of vessels arriving at San Francisco…
  FamilySearch's index of the San Francisco passenger lists, read by the archive on 20 September 2026, has Samuel Monderer, born about 1911 in Poland, arriving at San Francisco in 1947 on the Marine Lynx. The register's compiled line gives 1909, and the two are 2 years apart, and the name occurs once on the register. The ship's manifest heading says she sailed from Shanghai, and a passenger born in Poland landing at San Francisco in 1947 from Shanghai is the route's end: the refugees who waited out the war there. So the entry is taken as this person's under the archive's rule of 19 September 2026 for records from the route. The sheet is NARA microfilm publication M1410, film 387, image 222, read by the archive on 20 September 2026.
• JDC Archives, New York, collection AR 33/44 file 53 (the Jewish Community of Kobe's returns to the JDC, 1941; Set I, item 00761) — Set I pp. 5–7 — "List… — "List of persons who left Japan for Shanghai in the month of July 1941", Nos. 1–15
  He left Japan for Shanghai on the Taiyo Maru, sailing from Kobe on 18 July 1941 (the Jewish Community of Kobe's list of persons who left Japan for Shanghai, July 1941 (JDC Archives, AR 33/44 file 53)). The list reads: "Monderer Samuel". (Taiyo Maru, Kobe, 18 July 1941, destination Shanghai.)
• UNRRA China Office, S-1132-0000-0181, Mizrachi members list and the United Board of Rabbis' birth-data pages, Shanghai 1945–46 (UN Archives, AG-018-001)
  A list of the members of the Mizrachi Organization of Polish War Refugees in Shanghai, dated 20 December 1945 and kept in the records of UNRRA's China Office, gives his birth as 25 September 1909 in Strzelce Male, and his Polish passport as No. B.II 6/2103/35, issued in Krakow on 21 September 1935. (United Nations Archives, UNRRA China Office records.)
• HaTzofe, 14 October 1945 (National Library of Israel, Historical Jewish Press)
  Samuel Monderer was one of the Mizrachi members from Poland in Shanghai who wrote to HaTzofe in September 1945; the letter, printed on 14 October 1945, names him among them (National Library of Israel, Historical Jewish Press).
• La-karov ve-la-rachok, 29 August 1946 — the Far Eastern Palestine Committee's list of Jewish refugees in Shanghai (National Library of Israel, Historical Jewish Press)
  The Far Eastern Palestine Committee's list of Jewish refugees in Shanghai, printed by the Jewish Agency Search Bureau's bulletin La-karov ve-la-rachok on 29 August 1946, lists Samuel Monderer: born 1909 at Strzelce, a fitter, arrived in 1941 from Lithuania; the year and the town agree with the 1940 Vilna refugee list, the Kobe Jewish community's refugee register (National Library of Israel, Historical Jewish Press).
• Shanghai Ledger, page 135 (left): entries 1074-1081, registered 26 July 1941: Schaja Raisa (b. 25 Dec 1900 Tomsk… — the last four all lodging at 54 Chusan Road, house 17. Library of Congress digitisation of the Polish Consulate's register
• Shanghai Ledger, page 135 (right): entries 1074-1081, registered 26 July 1941: Schaja Raisa (b. 25 Dec 1900 Toms… — the last four all lodging at 54 Chusan Road, house 17. Library of Congress digitisation of the Polish Consulate's register

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