Nutkiewicz Berek

Nutkiewicz Berek received transit visa no. 1505 at the Japanese consulate in Kaunas on 7 August 1940. The register records merchant, aged 31.

What the register records

Nationality as recorded

Polnisch

Age in 1940

31

Occupation

Merchant

The journey

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

Where this comes from

• 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…
  Entry 232 of the Kobe community's list of refugees and their relatives abroad: aged 31, born at Ostrow Mazowieckaiecka, Polish; relatives abroad: a cousin, Sam Fein, 889 Stebbins Avenue, Bronx, New York; S. Hofman, 2305 Righton, Detroit, Michigan.
• JDC Archives, New York, collection AR 33/44 file 53 (the Jewish Community of Ko… — "List of departures for the month of June, 1941" (Jewish Community of Kobe, Migration Office; covering letter p. 12, Kobe, July 1941, HICEM-funded tickets)
  He left Yokohama on the Hikawa Maru on 5 June 1941, bound for Vancouver (the Jewish Community of Kobe's list of departures, June 1941 (JDC Archives, AR 33/44 file 53)). The list reads: Hikawa Maru sheet: "Nutkiewicz Berek — 1". (Hikawa Maru, Yokohama, 5 June 1941, Vancouver.)

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