Berkman Lejb

Berkman Lejb received transit visa no. 1693 at the Japanese consulate in Kaunas on 13 August 1940. The register records manager, aged 39.

What the register records

Nationality as recorded

Polnisch

Age in 1940

39

Occupation

Manager

The journey

Reached Japan; registered in Kobe for USA.

Where this comes from

• 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 13 of the Kobe community's list of refugees and their relatives abroad: born 1901 at Warszawa; relatives abroad: a friend, Heyman Schiff, 101 Clinton Street, 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 31 of the Kobe Jewish Community's refugee register: aged 40, born at Warsaw, a clerk, who arrived in Japan from Vilnius on 25 February 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 1693)
• "California, San Francisco, Passenger Lists, 1893-1953", FamilySearch — index entry for Lejb Berkman, 1941: born about 1901, Poland. Digitised from NARA microfilm publication M1410 (passenger lists of vessels arriving at San Francisco).…
  FamilySearch's index of the San Francisco passenger lists, read by the archive on 20 September 2026, has Lejb Berkman, born about 1901 in Poland, arriving at San Francisco in 1941. The register's compiled line gives 1901, and the two agree. The name occurs once on the register, and a Polish-born passenger landing at San Francisco in 1941 fits the route through Japan, so the entry is taken as this person's under the archive's rule of 19 September 2026 for records from the route.
• Manifest of alien passengers, SS Kamakura Maru, sailing from Yokohama March 27th 1941, arrived San Francisco April 10th 1941 (US National Archives, M1410, film 369; read on FamilySearch's copy)
  He reached San Francisco on 10 April 1941 on the Kamakura Maru from Yokohama on an American visitor's visa, sponsored through the American Federation of Labor, leaving his wife Lea in Warsaw, according to the passenger list held by the National Archives (FamilySearch's copy).
• Yad Vashem Archives, Jerusalem — the card file of Jewish refugees from Poland who found refuge in various countries, 1939–1941
  Yad Vashem's card file of Jewish refugees from Poland who found refuge in various countries, 1939–1941, has a card for Lejb Berkman, born in 1901, of Warsaw, who was in Wilno during the war; the year and the town agree with this register line. Credit: Yad Vashem Archives.

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