Juliusz Messer

Juliusz Messer received transit visa no. 749 at the Japanese consulate in Kaunas on 1 August 1940. The register records merchant, aged 36.

What the register records

Nationality as recorded

Polnisch

Age in 1940

36

Occupation

Merchant

Family, per the Kitade-Bluman list

husband of #750

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…
  203, 38, Krakow; uncle Stanley B.Brill c/o Asbestos Ltd 8 W 40 str New York
• 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 1090) — the consulate's register of Polish citizens who reached the city, 1934-1943 — LEDGER ENTRY READ: Messer Juliusz, merchant, born 22 November 1903 Krakow, married; registered 16 August 1941; 159 Avenue Haig, flat 5; on a passport issued by the Polish Consulate in COPENHAGEN 22 February 1939 (Ser. I 920773), extended by the British Legation in Kaunas 26 August 1940 (M-209) and by the Embassy in Tokyo 26 March 1941; the consul notes his wife 'was added in STOCKHOLM on 18 September 1940' — wife IRENA STELLA born 13 August 1913 Warsaw (the register's No.750).
• Shanghai Ledger, page 137 (left): entries 1090-1097, registered 16-23 August 1941: Messer Juliusz (merchant, b. 22 Nov 1903 Krakow, on a Copenhagen-consulate passport; wife Irena Stella b. 1913 Warsaw, 'added in Stockholm 18 Sep 1940'),…
• Shanghai Ledger, page 137 (right): entries 1090-1097, registered 16-23 August 1941: Messer Juliusz (merchant, b. 22 Nov 1903 Krakow, on a Copenhagen-consulate passport; wife Irena Stella b. 1913 Warsaw, 'added in Stockholm 18 Sep 1940'),…