Stanislaw Kerner

Stanislaw Kerner received transit visa no. 97 at the Japanese consulate in Kaunas on 29 July 1940. The register records physician, aged 43.

What the register records

Nationality as recorded

Polnisch

Age in 1940

43

Occupation

Physician

Family, per the Kitade-Bluman list

husband of #103, son Teodor(9)

The journey

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

Travelled with, and never given a number

• Teodor — son, aged 9

The register recorded visa holders. It did not reliably record the wives and children who travelled on somebody else’s visa, so these people have no entry of their own and cannot be searched for. Where the archive has recovered a name, it is here.

Where this comes from

• 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 133 of the Kobe community's list of refugees and their relatives abroad: born 1897 at Krakow; relatives abroad: an aunt, Luiza Zweig, Tel Aviv.
• 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…
  Entry 237 of the Kobe Jewish Community's refugee register: aged 44, born at Krakow, a physician, who arrived in Japan from Vilnius on 24 February 1941.
• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, Holocaust Survivors and Victims Database — the Flight and Rescue electronic dataset (source 20725): USHMM's own transcription of the Kaunas register, 2,140 persons with citizenship, visa type, iss…
  USHMM Flight and Rescue dataset: arrived in Japan 24 Feb 1941 (line 97)

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