Berkowicz Dawid

Berkowicz Dawid received transit visa no. 1572 at the Japanese consulate in Kaunas on 9 August 1940. Aged 43 in 1940.

What the register records

Nationality as recorded

Polnisch

Age in 1940

43

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 714, Dawid Berkowicz, born 1896 at Warszawa, who came from Warszawa; the year agrees with the register's compiled age, and his brothers Szloma and Lejb Berkowicz, both on the register (Nos. 1575 and 1573), stand beside him on the list.
• "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.

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