Bergman Simson

Bergman Simson received transit visa no. 1024 at the Japanese consulate in Kaunas on 3 August 1940. The register records clerk, aged 26.

What the register records

Nationality as recorded

Polnisch

Age in 1940

26

Occupation

Clerk

The journey

Reached Japan; reached Shanghai; registered in Kobe for Australia and then Israel.

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…
• 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…
  No 14; 1913 Brzezany; Polish; brother J.Bergman Tel Aviv; sister E.Bergman Herzlia Bejtmor 4 Haifa
• 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…
  #30, 28, b. Brzezany, Clerk, arr 14.2, from Vilno
• 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 1278); the register line's repaired reading and the ledger agree exactly — matched on the repaired register name, approved under the owner's review of 19 Aug 2026 — LEDGER ENTRY READ: Bergman Simson, clerk (urzednik), born 26 December 1913 Brzezany, single; Tokyo-issued passport of 5 September 1941 (Ser. III 2106) on a British Legation Kaunas certificate of 23 February 1940 (B-114) and a Brzezany identity card of 1939.
• 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 14 Feb 1941 (line 1024)