Alfred Zauberman

Alfred Zauberman received transit visa no. 79 at the Japanese consulate in Kaunas on 29 July 1940. The register records lawyer, aged 36.

What the register records

Nationality as recorded

Polnisch

Age in 1940

36

Occupation

Lawyer

Family, per the Kitade-Bluman list

husband of #78

The journey

Reached Japan; reached Shanghai.

Where this comes from

• List of Refugees, Vilna, 1940 — JDC Archives, New York, collection AR 33/44, file 00876. The contemporary register of Polish Jewish refugees in Lithuania, running to more than nine thousand numbered entries; the fullest independent check…
  6551, Laczyoa, 1912, from Lodz
• 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…
  1903 Lodz
• 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…
  no.729, age 38, Lodz, Lawyer, arr 13.2 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 1155) — the consulate's register of Polish citizens who reached the city, 1934-1943 — LEDGER ENTRY READ: Zauberman Alfred, lawyer, born 1903 Lodz, married; registered 22 September 1941; passport issued by the Polish Embassy in Tokyo 19 May 1941.
• Tadeusz Romer papers, Library and Archives Canada, MG 31 D 68, vol. 2 (microfilm reel C-10451, frame 1089): 'Lista obywateli polskich ewakuowanych z Dalekiego Wschodu', page 3 — civilian refugees Nos. 93-101: Rathaus, Siemiatycki, Waldbe…
  Named on the Polish Embassy's list of Polish citizens evacuated from the Far East on the exchange ship s/s Kamakura Maru, Shanghai, 16 August 1942 — one of the 41 'civilian refugees' for whom Ambassador Romer obtained places (evacuee no. 100, 'ZAUBERMAN mec. Alfred z zona Irena (evacuees 100-101)'); the party sailed with Romer to Lourenco Marques and most went on to England
• Library and Archives Canada, Tadeusz Romer fonds, MG 31 D 68, reel C-10452, frame 628, via Canadiana Heritage — the same list, page 4, entries 33-41 (Rathaus, Rabbi Siemiatycki, the Waldberg sisters, Wallach, Rabbi Wysokier and wife, Zau…
  On the Polish Embassy's list of 41 Polish refugees (Romer's Shanghai-period papers) (Romer fonds, reel C-10452, frame 628, entry 40): ZAUBERMAN Alfred, Dr. praw, adwokat, born 1903; passport 236/729/13/V/41, Tokio 19.V.41, do 8.12.43 — No visa. Maintains his earlier application for military service.