Berkowicz Josef

Berkowicz Josef received transit visa no. 1571 at the Japanese consulate in Kaunas on 9 August 1940. The register records manufacturer, aged 39.

What the register records

Nationality as recorded

Polnisch

Age in 1940

39

Occupation

Manufacturer

Family, per the Kitade-Bluman list

brother of #1573

The journey

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

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 333, Jozef Berkowicz, born 1900 at Warszawa, who came from Warszawa; the year agrees with the register's compiled age, and the town with what the archive already holds for this line.
• 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 15 of the Kobe community's list of refugees and their relatives abroad: born 1900 at Warszawa; relatives abroad: brothers, Bernard Berkowicz, 65-74 Sounder Street, Forest Hill, New York, and Georg Berkowicz, 65-38 Booth Street, Forest Hill, New York.
• 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 33 of the Kobe Jewish Community's refugee register: aged 41, born at Warsaw, a manufacturer, who arrived in Japan from Vilnius on 25 February 1941.
• "List of persons arriving on route to New Zealand" — the arrival roster for the sailing from Japan, September 1941: 33 typed names, from Dr George Bluman’s own marked-up cop… — September 1941, not July; he had misread his own handwriting.
  Named on the list of persons arriving on route to New Zealand, sailing from Japan in 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 25 Feb 1941 (line 1571)

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