Berkowicz Chaim

Berkowicz Chaim received transit visa no. 1160a at the Japanese consulate in Kaunas on 5 August 1940.

What the register records

Nationality as recorded

Polnisch

Where this comes from

• 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 1145) — the consulate's register of Polish citizens who reached the city, 1934-1943 — the ledger reads: Berkowicz Chaim, born 5 June 1915 Wiszniew, single; registered 22 September 1941; passport B-140 issued by the Shanghai consulate 19 September 1941 — found on reading the page (USHMM's Flight and Rescue data has him arriving in Japan 13 February 1941).
• 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 1160a — USHMM drops the suffix letter)
• George Bluman, email to the archive, 28 August 2026 — the compiler of the Chiune Sugihara Lists reads the archive's cross-match of the Polish consulate's Shanghai register against his own files, and marks which of the register numbers he…
  George Bluman, who compiled the numbered Chiune Sugihara Lists, wrote to the archive on 28 August 2026 that his own files had already recorded this person as having reached Shanghai. The archive came to the same place separately, from the Polish consulate's register of citizens kept in Shanghai. The two records were made independently of each other, years apart, and they agree.
• Polish rabbis and rabbinical students registered with UNRRA, Shanghai (United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration, China Office;… — United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, Holocaust Survivors and Victims Database, list 48676
  The United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration's Shanghai register of Polish rabbis and rabbinical students, indexed by the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, has Chaim Berkowicz, rabbinical student, arrived in China in Sep 1941, wishing to go to Palestine. The name occurs once on the register; the list is of the refugees who came from Vilna by way of Kobe, and an arrival in Shanghai in Sep 1941 is the route this line is recorded as taking.
• Students of the Mir yeshiva in Shanghai: three lists of the students of the Rabbinical College "Mirrer Yeshiva" (United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, Holocaust Survivors and Victims Database, lists 48681, 48682 and 48654)
  Chaim Berkowicz is named on two of the three lists of the students of the Mir yeshiva in Shanghai indexed by the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. This is the only line on the register with this given name and surname, and the lists are of the yeshiva that came from Vilna by way of Kobe to Shanghai in 1941, the route the register records for its students.
• 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…
  The Kobe Jewish Community's refugee register lists Chaim Berkowicz, aged 26, born at Wisniew, a yeshiva student, who reached Japan from Kovno on 13 February 1941.
• La-karov ve-la-rachok, 21 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 in La-karov ve-la-rachok on 21 March 1946, has Chaim Berkowicz, born in 1915 at Wiszniew, of the Mir yeshiva, who came in 1941 from Kaunas by way of Siberia.
• Yad Vashem Archives, Jerusalem — the card file of Jewish refugees from Poland who found refuge in various countries, 1939–1941
  Yad Vashem's card file of Jewish refugees from Poland who found refuge in various countries, 1939–1941, has a card for Chaim Berkowicz, born in 1915, of Wiszniew, who was in Wilno during the war. The archive attaches it under its rule of 19 September 2026: the card file is a record of the refugees in Wilno, where the road through Sugihara's visas began; the full name occurs once on the register; and the card places the person in Wilno in 1939–41, on the road to Sugihara's visas. Credit: Yad Vashem Archives.
• 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 1940 Vilna refugee list has, at entry 7491, Berkowicz Chaim, born 1915, who came from Mir; the year agrees with the age the register gives, and Mir with what the archive already holds.

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