Irena Stella Messer

Irena Stella Messer received transit visa no. 750 at the Japanese consulate in Kaunas on 1 August 1940. Aged 26 in 1940.

What the register records

Nationality as recorded

Polnisch

Age in 1940

26

Family, per the Kitade-Bluman list

wife of #749

The journey

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

Where this comes from

• 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) — found on reading the ledger page itself — LEDGER ENTRY READ: Messer Irena Stella, born 13 August 1913 Warsaw — named as wife on her husband Juliusz Messer's Shanghai entry 1090, with the note that she was ADDED TO HIS PASSPORT IN STOCKHOLM on 18 September 1940: the couple passed through Sweden between Kaunas and Japan.
• 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'),…