Bargman Berko

Bargman Berko received transit visa no. 1756 at the Japanese consulate in Kaunas on 14 August 1940. The register records tailor, aged 35.

What the register records

Nationality as recorded

Polnisch

Age in 1940

35

Occupation

Tailor

The journey

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

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 9 of the Kobe community's list of refugees and their relatives abroad: born 1905 at Biala Podlaska, Polish; relatives abroad: an uncle, Shama Fridman, Calle Castillo 450, Buenos Aires.
• 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 25 of the Kobe Jewish Community's refugee register: aged 36, born at Biala Podlaska, a tailor, who arrived in Japan from Vilnius on 25 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 1347) — the consulate's register of Polish citizens who reached the city, 1934-1943 — the ledger reads: Bargman Berko, tailor, born 12 July 1905 Biala Podlaska, married; 54/62 Chusan Road; Tokyo-issued passport of 4 December 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 1756)
• The JDC's Shanghai migration files, 1946–1950 — the index of emigrants from Shanghai (JDC Archives, New York, collection AR 33/44, file 14)
  Berko Bargman, a tailor, is in the JDC's index of its Shanghai emigration cases as Berko Bargmann, filed among those leaving for Australia — the destination the register's compiled line gives him. (JDC Archives, New York, AR 33/44, the Shanghai migration index)
• La-karov ve-la-rachok, 21 March 1946 — the Far Eastern Palestine Committee's list of Jewish refugees in Shanghai (National Library of Israel, Historical Jewish Press)
  The Far Eastern Palestine Committee's list of Jewish refugees in Shanghai, printed by the Jewish Agency Search Bureau's bulletin La-karov ve-la-rachok on 21 March 1946, lists Berko Bergman: born 1905 at Biała Podlaska, a tailor, arrived in 1941 from Poland; the year, the town and the trade agree with the Kobe Jewish community's refugee register, the Kobe community's list of refugees and their relatives (National Library of Israel, Historical Jewish Press).

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