Wiszniewski Berko

Wiszniewski Berko received transit visa no. 1593 at the Japanese consulate in Kaunas on 10 August 1940. The register records rabbinical student - mir yeshiva, aged 26.

What the register records

Nationality as recorded

Polnisch

Age in 1940

26

Occupation

Rabbinical Student - Mir Yeshiva

The journey

Reached Japan; reached Shanghai.

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 6314, Berko Wiśniewski, born 1914 at Górki Boże, who had come from Korytnica; the year agrees with the register's compiled age.

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