Miriam Lermer

Miriam Lermer received transit visa no. 1830 at the Japanese consulate in Kaunas on 16 August 1940. Aged 25 in 1940.

What the register records

Nationality as recorded

Lithuanien

Age in 1940

25

Family, per the Kitade-Bluman list

wife of #1829

The journey

Reached Japan; aided by the Polish ambassador Tadeusz Romer; registered in Kobe for Canada.

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…
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• US arrival manifest: Miriam Lermer, Seattle, 1941
  "Seattle Passenger Lists", FamilySearch, entry for Miriam Lermer, 1941. Ship: Hie Maru. Matched from the Hie Maru's Polish-born passenger list (87 people). Register No.1830 'Miriam Lermer' records age 25; the manifest gives born 1914, arriving 1941.
• Oral history interview with Arthur Lermer — USC Shoah Foundation Visual History Archive, interview 59296. Catalogue: born Oct 3 1908, Kraków (Kraków, Poland); born Krakow 3 Oct 1908; No.1829 Artur Lermer. Viewing needs a free VHA registr…
  USC Shoah Foundation VHA interview 59296: Arthur Lermer — his wife Miriam — gave a testimony (catalogue: born Oct 3 1908, Kraków (Kraków, Poland)); born Krakow 3 Oct 1908; No.1829 Artur Lermer
• Musée de l'Holocauste Montréal — the Lermer family's safe-conduct (Chiune Sugihara): Lithuanian safe-conduct of 5 September 1940; Arthur Lermer, his wife Miriam and their son Zoria escaped to Tokyo; donated by their daughter Judith Lerme…
  The Montreal Holocaust Museum holds the Lermer family's Lithuanian safe-conduct of 5 September 1940, given by the family, which carries the Sugihara visas numbered 1829 and 1830 — the register's numbers for Artur and Miriam Lermer — and the museum attributes it to Arthur Lermer and his wife Miriam. The family photographs the museum holds with it are inscribed Tokyo, 1940, on their route.
• "Washington, King, Seattle, Passenger Lists, 1890-1957", FamilySearch — index entry for Miriam Lermer, 1941: born about 1914, Poland. Digitised from NARA microfilm publication M1383 (passenger and crew lists of vessels arriving at Seattl…
  FamilySearch's index of the Seattle passenger lists, read by the archive on 20 September 2026, has Miriam Lermer, born about 1914 in Poland, arriving at Seattle in 1941. The register's compiled line gives 1915, and the two are 1 year apart. The name occurs once on the register, and a Polish-born passenger landing at Seattle in 1941 fits the route through Japan, so the entry is taken as this person's under the archive's rule of 19 September 2026 for records from the route.
• Mark Halpern correspondence (8 Aug 2026) + Yad Vashem "Fragments of Memory" page: five of seven Osako-album portraits identified (by the family, Halpern, Kitade and Taka Fukushima) — Vera Harrang, [name withheld], Nissim Segaloff, Zosia…
• Catalogue still for the oral history of Arthur Lermer — USC Shoah Foundation Visual History Archive, interview 59296 (the archive's public catalogue frame, 352x240); links to the testimony at vha.usc.edu/testimony/59296