Rozen Berek

Rozen Berek received transit visa no. 1689 at the Japanese consulate in Kaunas on 13 August 1940. The register records journalist, aged 40.

What the register records

Nationality as recorded

Polnisch

Age in 1940

40

Occupation

Journalist

Family, per the Kitade-Bluman list

wife Bela (36)

The journey

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

Travelled with, and never given a number

• Bela — wife, aged 36

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

• 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 4633, Ber Rozen, born 1899 at Warsaw, who had come from Warsaw; the year agrees with the register's age and Warsaw agrees with the archive's other records.
• 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 233 of the Kobe community's list of refugees and their relatives abroad: born 1899 at Warsaw; relatives abroad: Max Wollman.
• 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 571 of the Kobe Jewish Community's refugee register: aged 42, born at Warsaw, a journalist, who arrived in Japan from Vilnius on 24 February 1941.
• The Shanghai Ledger — register of Polish citizens kept by the Consulate of Poland in Shanghai, 1934-1943 (original at the Archives of the Polish Ministry of Foreign Affairs, ref. 43/2003; digitised by the Library of Congress; indexed as…
  Registered with the Polish Consulate in Shanghai (ledger entry 1265); the names closely match this register line — approved by the owner's review, 19 Aug 2026
• 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 24 Feb 1941 (line 1689)
• Names and addresses of Polish refugees registered with UNRRA wishing to return to Poland, Shanghai, 1946 (United Nations Relief and Rehabilit… — United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, Holocaust Survivors and Victims Database, list 48688
  In 1946 the United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration's Shanghai office drew up a one-page list of the Polish refugees registered with it who wished to be repatriated to Poland; the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum has indexed its 37 names. Berek Rozen is on it with a Bela Rozen; the register's compilers record his wife as Bela, and his line as having reached Shanghai.

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