Abram Winer

Abram Winer received transit visa no. 832 at the Japanese consulate in Kaunas on 2 August 1940. The register records chemist, aged 31.

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What the register records

Nationality as recorded

Polnisch

Age in 1940

31

Occupation

Chemist

The journey

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

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…
  The 1940 Vilna refugee list has, at entry 6198, Abram Winer, born 1909, who had come from Warszawa; the year agrees with the register's compiled age.
• 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 359 of the Kobe community's list of refugees and their relatives abroad: aged 32, born at Mir, a chemist, Polish; relatives abroad: an uncle, J. Weiner, 232 West 50th Street, New York.
• 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 1474); the names closely match this register line — approved by the owner's review, 19 Aug 2026 — the ledger reads: Winer Abram, student, born 13 July 1909 Mir, single; 308 Route Cardinal Mercier; registered 13 December 1941 on a passport issued by the Shanghai consulate itself (W-109, 5 December 1941).
• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, Holocaust Survivors and Victims Database — 'List of Polish war refugees in China', 242 names: the Polish (Sugihara-stream) group in wartime Shanghai, among them Gedalia Zupnik of the Mir, Chaim Ba…
  USHMM 'List of Polish war refugees in China' (242 names); the names closely match this register line — approved by the owner's review, 19 Aug 2026
• UNRRA China Office, S-1132-0000-0181, registration of Polish rabbis and rabbinical students, their lists and sailings, Shanghai 1945–1946 (UN Archives, AG-018-001)
  The Agudath Israel organisation of refugees from Poland in Shanghai listed him among its members on 24 December 1945: Abram Winer, born in 1909 in Mir, Polish passport No. W-109/3/23/41 issued in Shanghai on 5 December 1941. The UNRRA China Office kept the list with its 1946 registration of Polish rabbis and rabbinical students. He wrote to UNRRA for the organisation as its representative in December 1945. (United Nations Archives, UNRRA China Office records.)
• The numbered Sugihara visa list, the page of 2 August 1940 carrying Nos. 795 to 865 (among them No. 805, Szaps Jaskolka), photographed beside a ruler.
• Shanghai Ledger, page 184 (left): entries 1467-1474, registered 13 December 1941 on passports issued by the Shanghai consulate itself 1-5 December 1941: the Witelson brothers of Warsaw — Szmul (student, b. 1 Jul 1920) and Szlama Zelman (…
• Shanghai Ledger, page 184 (right): entries 1467-1474, registered 13 December 1941 on passports issued by the Shanghai consulate itself 1-5 December 1941: the Witelson brothers of Warsaw — Szmul (student, b. 1 Jul 1920) and Szlama Zelman…

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