Irena Stella Messer

Visa no. 750 · Kaunas, 1 August 1940

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

Documents

Document — Irena Stella Messer — 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'), Klein Emil (Roman Catholic clerk, b. 1902 Tarnow, wife Irena Felicja), Wassercug Lejb (student, b. 1921 Warsaw, on a Harbin-consulate passport), Rozenbes Uszer-Zelik (weaver, b. 1915 Warsaw, wife Betti b. 1918 Wilno), Pinus Lejzor (teacher, b. 10 Nov 1883 Szklow), Rathaus Juljan (b. 1898 Bialystok), the Bekerman brothers of Ciechanow — Mordchaj (office clerk, b. 1911) and Izrael (merchant, b. 1909). Library of Congress digitisation of the Polish Consulate's register

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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 — the ledger reads: 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.
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 Stella Messer, born in 1913, 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.
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

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