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.

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…
  No 136; 1899 Krakow; Polish; uncle J.Woroman Balfour str. 35 Tel Aviv; cousin Erna Sachs Suffolk str. 98, N.Y.C.
• 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…
  42, b. Krakow, Clerk, arr. 14.2, from Vilno
• 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 — LEDGER ENTRY READ: Kerner Ascher, clerk, born 20 August 1899 Krakow, married; 805 East Seward Road; Tokyo-issued passport of 3 December 1941.
• 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…