Budin Berko

Budin Berko received transit visa no. 1546 at the Japanese consulate in Kaunas on 8 August 1940. The register records baker, aged 47.

What the register records

Nationality as recorded

Polnisch

Age in 1940

47

Occupation

Baker

Family, per the Kitade-Bluman list

wife Sora Ester (46), child Morduch (18), uncle of #1544

The journey

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

Travelled with, and never given a number

• Morduch — child, aged 18
• Sora Ester — wife, aged 46

The register recorded visa holders. It did not reliably record the wives and children who travelled on somebody else’s visa, so these people have no entry of their own and cannot be searched for. Where the archive has recovered a name, it is here.

Where this comes from

• 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…
  Entry 87 of the Kobe Jewish Community's refugee register: aged 47, born at Lida, a baker, who arrived in Japan from Vilnius on 2 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 2 Feb 1941 (line 1546)
• 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 by the Jewish Agency Search Bureau's bulletin La-karov ve-la-rachok on 21 March 1946, lists Berko Boris Budin: born 1894 at Lida, a baker, arrived in 1941 from Vilnius by way of Siberia; the year and the town agree with the Kobe Jewish community's refugee register (National Library of Israel, Historical Jewish Press).
• 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…
  A possible record, not yet confirmed as this person: the Kobe community's list of refugees and their relatives abroad has a line for B. Budin, with no age, birthplace or trade, whose relative abroad was Pilip Markus of 29 Schuyler Street, Roxbury, Massachusetts. The initial fits Berko Budin, but nothing else on the line confirms it.

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