Dawid Markus

Visa no. 849 · Kaunas, 2 August 1940

Dawid Markus received transit visa no. 849 at the Japanese consulate in Kaunas on 2 August 1940. The register records journalist, aged 24.

Documents

Document — Dawid Markus — Shanghai Ledger, page 179 (left): entries 1427-1434, registered 13 December 1941 on Tokyo-issued passports of late November and early December 1941: Merzel Uszer (student, b. 15 Jan 1918 Tyrawa Woloska, at 35 Moulmein Road), Muller Isak (b. 11 Nov 1908 Muszyna), Rabbi Mannes Hillel (b. 20 May 1909, with wife Jenta b. 9 Apr 1914 Zareby Koscielne), Markus Dawid (journalist, b. 3 Mar 1916 Brok), Nizynski Isaak (trader, b. 7 Jul 1915 Warsaw), Nusbaum Boruch Mordka (office clerk, b. 12 Mar 1903 Biala Podlaska), the Najman brothers of Radom — Moszek (student, b. 12 Mar 1920) and Uszer Zelik (b. 16 Sep 1918) — at 35 Moulmein Road. Library of Congress digitisation of the Polish Consulate's register

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What the register records

Nationality as recorded: Polnisch
Age in 1940: 24
Occupation: Journalist

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 3707, Dawid Markus, born 1916 at Brok, who had come from Brok; the year agrees with the register's age and Brok agrees with the archive's other records.
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 1430) — the consulate's register of Polish citizens who reached the city, 1934-1943 — the ledger reads: Markus Dawid, journalist, born 3 March 1916 Brok, single; 1 Ching Road; Tokyo-issued passport of 1 December 1941.
Oral history interview with David Markus — USC Shoah Foundation Visual History Archive, interview 40788. Catalogue: born Mar 3 1916, Brok (Białystok, Poland); born Brok 3 Mar 1916; Bluman: No.849 Dawid Mar… — the interviewee may be living
USC Shoah Foundation VHA interview 40788: David Markus — the interviewee himself — gave a testimony (catalogue: born Mar 3 1916, Brok (Białystok, Poland)); born Brok 3 Mar 1916; Bluman: No.849 Dawid Markus, journalist, 24
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 179 (left): entries 1427-1434, registered 13 December 1941 on Tokyo-issued passports of late November and early December 194… — at 35 Moulmein Road. Library of Congress digitisation of the Polish Consulate's register
Shanghai Ledger, page 179 (right): entries 1427-1434, registered 13 December 1941 on Tokyo-issued passports of late November and early December 19… — at 35 Moulmein Road. Library of Congress digitisation of the Polish Consulate's register
Oral history interview with David Markus — USC Shoah Foundation Visual History Archive, interview 40788. Catalogue: born Mar 3 1916, Brok (Białystok, Poland); born Brok 3 Mar 1916; Bluman: No.849 Dawid Mar… — the interviewee may be living
Catalogue still for the oral history of David Markus — USC Shoah Foundation Visual History Archive, interview 40788 (the archive's public catalogue frame, 352x240); links to the testimony at vha.usc.edu/testimony/40788

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