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 — LEDGER ENTRY READ: 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.