Holcberg Gilel

Holcberg Gilel received transit visa no. 1038 at the Japanese consulate in Kaunas on 5 August 1940. The register records merchant, aged 45.

What the register records

Nationality as recorded

Polnisch

Age in 1940

45

Occupation

Merchant

Family, per the Kitade-Bluman list

husband of #1036

The journey

Reached Japan; reached Shanghai.

Where this comes from

• 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 283 of the Kobe Jewish Community's refugee register: aged 46, born at Radomsko, a merchant, who arrived in Japan from Vilnius on 3 February 1941.
• 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 1086); the register line's dropped first letters restored, the names agree — approved by the owner's review, 19 Aug 2026 — the ledger reads: Holcberg Hilel (Hil), merchant, born 2 December 1895 Radomsko, married — wife SURA-DWOJRA born 27 September 1907 Sobkow (the register's No.1036); 144 Wayside Road 30/32; Katowice passport of 27 July 1935 extended by the Embassy in Tokyo 1 May 1941.
• "California, San Francisco, Passenger Lists, 1893-1953", FamilySearch — index entry for Hilel Holcberg, 1947: born about 1895, Polish. Digitised from NARA microfilm publication M1410 (passenger lists of vessels arriving at San Francisco)…
  FamilySearch's index of the San Francisco passenger lists, read by the archive on 20 September 2026, has Hilel Holcberg, born about 1895 in Polish, arriving at San Francisco in 1947 on the Marine Adder. The register's compiled line gives 1895, 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 1947 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 394, image 766, read by the archive on 20 September 2026.
• La-karov ve-la-rachok, 31 March 1946 — the Far Eastern Palestine Committee's list of Jewish refugees in Shanghai (National Library of Israel, Historical Jewish Press)
  The Far Eastern Palestine Committee's list of Jewish refugees in Shanghai, printed by the Jewish Agency Search Bureau's bulletin La-karov ve-la-rachok on 31 March 1946, lists Hilel Holcberg: born 1895 at Radomsko, a varnisher, arrived in 1941 from Vilnius; the year and the town agree with the Kobe Jewish community's refugee register (National Library of Israel, Historical Jewish Press).

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