Berkowicz Lejba received transit visa no. 1573 at the Japanese consulate in Kaunas on 9 August 1940. The register records manufacturer, aged 50.
What the register records
Nationality as recorded
Polnisch
Age in 1940
50
Occupation
Manufacturer
Family, per the Kitade-Bluman list
father of #1574
The journey
Reached Japan; aided by the Polish ambassador Tadeusz Romer; registered in Kobe for New Zealand.
What is known
A postcard sent from L. Berkowicz at Nowolipki, Warsaw (in the German-occupied General Government) addressed to L. Berkowicz care of 'JEWCOM' (the Jewish Committee) of Kobe, No. 6 Yamamoto-Dori, Ichome, Kobe, Japan. The card was mailed from Warschau (Warsaw) and bears a censor stamp. It reflects correspondence with Jewish refugees who reached Kobe, Japan, a common destination for those who escaped via Sugihara/Zwartendijk transit routes.
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… No.16, 1889 Biala Podl., pol.; brothers ditto
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… #34, 52, b. Biala Podl., manufac., arr 24.2, from Vilno
"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 copy (sent 18 Aug 2026). Bluman’s red ticks mark the passengers he… Named on the list of persons arriving on route to New Zealand, sailing from Japan in 1941.
