Abram Zylberman

Abram Zylberman received transit visa no. 1005 at the Japanese consulate in Kaunas on 3 August 1940. The register records journalist, aged 39.

What the register records

Nationality as recorded

Polnisch

Age in 1940

39

Occupation

Journalist

The journey

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

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…
  3621, Rozany, 1913, from Rozany
• 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 13 Feb 1941 (line 1005)