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.

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…
  #4052, Siedlce 1909, from Krakow
• 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…
  179; cousin-Schendrof Lowi Joseph Jerusalem Palesine; cousin Petsenbaum Izrael Fajerberg Tel Aviv; cousin Adolf Billet 525 Barbey str Brooklyn NY
• 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…
  32, Strzelce, merchant, 2.2, Vilno
• 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 — LEDGER ENTRY READ: 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.
• Shanghai Ledger, page 135 (left): entries 1074-1081, registered 26 July 1941: Schaja Raisa (b. 25 Dec 1900 Tomsk), Swieca Anatol (advocate, Warsaw), Rozenbaum Teodor (merchant, b. 1906 Warsaw), Choczner Joel-Dawid (merchant, b. 19 Feb 19…
• Shanghai Ledger, page 135 (right): entries 1074-1081, registered 26 July 1941: Schaja Raisa (b. 25 Dec 1900 Tomsk), Swieca Anatol (advocate, Warsaw), Rozenbaum Teodor (merchant, b. 1906 Warsaw), Choczner Joel-Dawid (merchant, b. 19 Feb 1…