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.

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…
  6188; Torazyn; 1916; Warszawa
• 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…
  #359, 32, Mir, chemic., Polish; uncle J.Weiner 232 W 50 str 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 — LEDGER ENTRY READ: 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
• A document held in the archive's files
• 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…