Wajs Mendel

Wajs Mendel received transit visa no. 695 at the Japanese consulate in Kaunas on 1 August 1940. The register records mechanic, aged 37.

What the register records

Nationality as recorded

Polnisch

Age in 1940

37

Occupation

Mechanic

The journey

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

Where this comes from

• 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…
  279, 1903 Warsaw, Polish; cousin B.Wajs 11-80 46 str Brooklyn; J.Cantkier Calle Estanislao Zaballo 534 dep 3 Rosario Prov de Santa Fe Rep Argentina
• 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…
  #690, age 38, b. Warsaw, clerk, arr. 23.2
• 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 1472); the names closely match this register line — approved by the owner's review, 19 Aug 2026 — LEDGER ENTRY READ: Wajs Mendel, office clerk, born 15 February 1903 Warsaw; 129/5 Macgregor Road; registered 13 December 1941 on a passport issued by the Shanghai consulate itself (W-108, 5 December 1941).
• Shanghai Ledger, page 184 (left): entries 1467-1474, registered 13 December 1941 on passports issued by the Shanghai consulate itself 1-5 December 1941: the Witelson brothers of Warsaw — Szmul (student, b. 1 Jul 1920) and Szlama Zelman (…
• Shanghai Ledger, page 184 (right): entries 1467-1474, registered 13 December 1941 on passports issued by the Shanghai consulate itself 1-5 December 1941: the Witelson brothers of Warsaw — Szmul (student, b. 1 Jul 1920) and Szlama Zelman…