Bernsztejn Morduch

Bernsztejn Morduch received transit visa no. 1288 at the Japanese consulate in Kaunas on 6 August 1940. Aged 25 in 1940.

What the register records

Nationality as recorded

Polnisch

Age in 1940

25

Family, per the Kitade-Bluman list

brother of #1882

The journey

Reached Japan; aided by the Polish ambassador Tadeusz Romer; registered in Kobe for USSR.

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 1940 Vilna refugee list has, at entry 449, Morduch Berensztejn, born 1914 at Baranowicze, who came from Warszawa; the year agrees with the register's compiled age.

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