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.

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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…
  Entry 203 of the Kobe community's list of refugees and their relatives abroad: aged 38, born at Krakow; relatives abroad: an uncle, Stanley B. Brill, care of Asbestos Ltd, 8 West 40th Street, 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 — the ledger reads: 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).
• The Jewish birth, marriage and death registers of Kraków, Podgórze and Klasno, 1827–1941 (Archiwum Narodowe w Krakowie, 29/1472–29/1473), as indexed by archival.name
  Juliusz Messer was born at Kraków on 22 November 1903, at the Kleparz market square, the son of Chaim Getzel Messer and Anna née Beckmann, according to the Jewish birth register of Kraków. The register's compiled age of 36 in 1940 and the Kobe list's birthplace, Kraków, agree, and the name occurs once on the register. (Read on archival.name's index of the Kraków registers; the register is in the National Archive in Kraków.)
• Yad Vashem Archives, Jerusalem — the card file of Jewish refugees from Poland who found refuge in various countries, 1939–1941
  Yad Vashem's card file of Jewish refugees from Poland who found refuge in various countries, 1939–1941, has a card for Juliusz Messer, born in 1903, of Gdynia, who was in Wilno during the war. The archive attaches it under its rule of 19 September 2026: the card file is a record of the refugees in Wilno, where the road through Sugihara's visas began; the full name occurs once on the register; and the card places the person in Wilno in 1939–41, on the road to Sugihara's visas. Credit: Yad Vashem Archives.
• Arolsen Archives, Bad Arolsen, collection 3.1.3.1 (AJDC Emigration Service, Paris, index cards): Juliusz Messer's index card, document 80216493
  Juliusz Messer, born at Kraków, registered with the American consul in Shanghai in August 1947 and reached France in December 1948; in December 1950, in Paris with Irena Stella Messer, he had a case open with the emigration service of the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee, bound for the United States. Index card, AJDC Emigration Service Paris, held by the Arolsen Archives, Bad Arolsen (ITS Digital Archive).
• Shanghai Ledger, page 137 (left): entries 1090-1097, registered 16-23 August 1941: Messer Juliusz (mer… — Mordchaj (office clerk, b. 1911) and Izrael (merchant, b. 1909). Library of Congress digitisation of the Polish Consulate's register
• Shanghai Ledger, page 137 (right): entries 1090-1097, registered 16-23 August 1941: Messer Juliusz (me… — Mordchaj (office clerk, b. 1911) and Izrael (merchant, b. 1909). Library of Congress digitisation of the Polish Consulate's register
• Arolsen Archives, Bad Arolsen, collection 3.1.3.1 (AJDC Emigration Service, Paris, index cards): Juliusz Messer's index card, document 80216493

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