Dawid Markus

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

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…
  3707, Brok, 1916, from Brok
• 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 — LEDGER ENTRY READ: 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 Markus, journalist, 24. Viewing nee…
  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
• A document held in the archive's files
• 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…
• Shanghai Ledger, page 179 (right): 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…
• 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