Bergsztein Benjamin

Bergsztein Benjamin received transit visa no. 1157 at the Japanese consulate in Kaunas on 5 August 1940. The register records rabbinical student - mir yeshiva, aged 17.

What the register records

Nationality as recorded

Polnisch

Age in 1940

17

Occupation

Rabbinical Student - Mir Yeshiva

The journey

Reached Japan; reached Shanghai; registered in Kobe for USA.

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…
  621; b.Szczuczyn 1922; from Szczuczyn
• 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…
  17, 19, Szczuczyn; cousin S.Kaplan 41 Wilson Str Rochester USA
• hunt/jdc_shanghai: JDC Shanghai migration file: BERGSZTEIN Benjamin
  JDC Archives, New York collection AR3344, 'Complete Shanghai Migration Files' (NY_AR3344_00014), page 7: BERGSZTEIN Benjamin, file no. 9807. Match: register No.1157 'Bergsztein Benjamin', and the register independently records this person as reaching Shanghai. Both name parts agree. NOTE: the index
• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, Holocaust Survivors and Victims Database — 'List of Polish war refugees in China', 242 names: the Polish (Sugihara-stream) group in wartime Shanghai, among them Gedalia Zupnik of the Mir, Chaim Ba…
  USHMM 'List of Polish war refugees in China' (242 names) — the Polish Sugihara-stream group in wartime Shanghai
• JDC Archives, New York — Shanghai Migration Files, box index (AR 33/44, file 00014): the alphabetical index to the JDC's Shanghai emigration case files, 1946-1950 — some 2,640 case files covering about 5,400 persons, each family under on…
  JDC Shanghai Migration Files, case file no. 9807 — an emigration case file opened for the family in Shanghai after the war; the file itself can be requested from the JDC Archives