Langer Mozes received transit visa no. 2032 at the Japanese consulate in Kaunas on 20 August 1940. The register records rabbinical student, aged 28.
What the register records
Nationality as recorded
Polish
Age in 1940
28
Occupation
Rabbinical Student
Family, per the Kitade-Bluman list
wife Smyra
The journey
Reached Japan; reached Shanghai; registered in Kobe for USA.
What is known
Moshe Langer, a Sugihara survivor, received a Sugihara visa which saved his life. He never met Sugihara personally but credited the visa with allowing him to survive the war.
Mark Halpern correspondence (9 Aug 2026): Netherlands Legation certificate, Tokyo, 18 March 1941 — Minister J.C. Pabst certifies that 74 named persons of Polish nationality "do not need a Netherlands visa in order to proceed to the Nethe… Amakusa Maru 74 — Netherlands Legation certificate (Tokyo, 18 Mar 1941), line 53. Cross-referenced by Mark Halpern, researcher (Aug 2026); archive pass concurs.
The list of seventy-four — Netherlands Legation, Tokyo, 18 March 1941. On the Legation's letterhead (Gezantschap der Nederlanden), certifying 'that the undermentioned persons all of Polish nationality do not need a Netherlands visa in or… Named at position 53 of seventy-four on the Netherlands Legation's certificate of 18 March 1941 — the list of the people who reached Tsuruga on Sugihara's transit visas without a Curaçao endorsement, were refused permission to land, and whose ship was turned back towards Vladivostok. The Legation typed the name as "Langer Mozes Izak". A pencilled note beside it gives this register number, which is how the two records are joined.
"California, San Francisco, Passenger Lists, 1893-1953", FamilySearch — index entry for Moses Izaak Langer, 1946: born about 1912, Poland. Digitised from NARA microfilm publication M1410 (passenger lists of vessels arriving at San Franci… FamilySearch's index of the San Francisco passenger lists, read by the archive on 20 September 2026, has Moses Izaak Langer, born about 1912 in Poland, arriving at San Francisco in 1946 on the Marine Lynx. The register's compiled line gives 1912, and the two are 0 years apart, and the name occurs once on the register. The ship's manifest heading says she sailed from Shanghai, and a passenger born in Poland landing at San Francisco in 1946 from Shanghai is the route's end: the refugees who waited out the war there. So the entry is taken as this person's under the archive's rule of 19 September 2026 for records from the route. The sheet is NARA microfilm publication M1410, film 386, image 589, read by the archive on 20 September 2026.