Brumberg Chaim

Brumberg Chaim received transit visa no. 1733 at the Japanese consulate in Kaunas on 14 August 1940. Aged 20 in 1940.

What the register records

Nationality as recorded

Polnisch

Age in 1940

20

Family, per the Kitade-Bluman list

son of #1802

The journey

Reached Japan; registered in Kobe for USA.

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 a Chaim Bromberg at entry 7912, born 1913 at Sokolow, who had come from Sokolow; the register's compiled age points to a birth about 1920, so the archive shows the entry as a lead, not as this person's record.
• 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 80 of the Kobe Jewish Community's refugee register: aged 21, who travelled from Vilnius.
• 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 1733)
• "California, San Francisco, Passenger Lists, 1893-1953", FamilySearch — index entry for Chaim Brumberg, 1941: born about 1921, 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 Chaim Brumberg, born about 1921 in Poland, arriving at San Francisco in 1941. The register's compiled line gives 1920, and the two are 1 year apart. 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.
• JDC Archives, New York, collection AR 33/44 file 53 (the Jewish Community of Kobe's returns to the JDC, 1941; Set I, item 00761) — Set I pp. 24–32 — April 1941 (and a May continuation sheet)
  He left Yokohama on the Asama Maru on 26 April 1941, bound for the USA (the Jewish Community of Kobe's list of refugees who left Japan in April 1941 (JDC Archives, AR 33/44 file 53)). The list reads: "Brumberg Chaim". (Asama Maru, Yokohama, 26 April 1941, the USA.)

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