Ascher Kerner

Ascher Kerner received transit visa no. 754 at the Japanese consulate in Kaunas on 1 August 1940. The register records bank clerk, aged 41.

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What the register records

Nationality as recorded

Polnisch

Age in 1940

41

Occupation

Bank Clerk

The journey

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

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 136 of the Kobe community's list of refugees and their relatives abroad: born 1899 at Krakow, Polish; relatives abroad: an uncle, J. Woroman, 35 Balfour Street, Tel Aviv; a cousin, Erna Sachs, 98 Suffolk Street, New York City.
• 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…
  The Kobe Jewish Community's refugee register: aged 42, born at Krakow, a clerk, who arrived in Japan from Vilnius on 14 February 1941.
• 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 1414); the register line's repaired reading and the ledger agree exactly — matched on the repaired register name, approved under the owner's review of 19 Aug 2026 — the ledger reads: Kerner Ascher, clerk, born 20 August 1899 Krakow, married; 805 East Seward Road; Tokyo-issued passport of 3 December 1941.
• 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
  Ascher Kerner was born at Kraków on 12 August 1899, at 12 Browarna Street: the Jewish birth register of Kraków for 1899 has the entry (no. 1017), on the midwife Anna Feder's report. The child was entered under the surname Kerner with no given name; a note added in 1930, on the Kraków voivodeship's instruction, gives the given name Ascher, declares the birth legitimate, and names the parents as Josef Wechsler and Beila Voortsmann, married in 1897. He kept the name Kerner. The match rests on more than the name: the Kobe community's list gives this line the same birth year and birthplace, the Shanghai consular register has him born in August 1899 at Kraków (on the 20th there, the 12th here), and the full 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.)
• Canadian Jewish Heritage Network / Alex Dworkin Canadian Jewish Archives
  The Canadian Jewish Heritage Network's index of the Jewish Immigrant Aid Services (JIAS) Montreal files, read on 24 October 2026, has an immigrant case file for Ascher Kerner, 1949 to 1951, marked "Shanghai Refugee Cases", and a client card for an Aschor Kerner whose file was opened on 20 October 1949. The register's Ascher Kerner, a bank clerk of 41, reached Shanghai and was bound for Canada, and his name occurs once on the register. The archive attaches it under its rule for records from the refugees' own route: the Jewish Immigrant Aid Services' files of Shanghai refugee cases are such a record, the full name occurs once on the register, and Shanghai in 1949 fits his route. The index gives a name, dates and a file number, and nothing else; the files themselves are closed under privacy law.
• Shanghai Ledger, page 177 (left): entries 1411-1418, registered 13 December 1941 on Tokyo-issued passports of 3 December 1941: Kaplan Hersz Lejb (industrialist, b. 12 Sep 1900 Warsaw), Kawa Manasza (student, b. 16 Dec 1914 Wyszkow, at 35…
• Shanghai Ledger, page 177 (right): entries 1411-1418, registered 13 December 1941 on Tokyo-issued passports of 3 December 1941: Kaplan Hersz Lejb (industrialist, b. 12 Sep 1900 Warsaw), Kawa Manasza (student, b. 16 Dec 1914 Wyszkow, at 3…

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