Hersz Bregman
Visa no. 2071 · Kaunas, 21 August 1940
Hersz Bregman received transit visa no. 2071 at the Japanese consulate in Kaunas on 21 August 1940. The register records timber specialist, aged 29.
What the register records Nationality as recorded Polish Age in 1940 29 Occupation Timber Specialist
The journey Reached Japan; aided by the Polish ambassador Tadeusz Romer; registered in Kobe for Burma.
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… 556; 1911 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…40; age 30; b. Olewsk; timber exp.; brother L.Bregman 1137 South 3 Road Alhambra California
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Hersz Bregman is one of 2,140 people recorded in the surviving register of the transit
visas Chiune Sugihara issued at the Japanese consulate in Kaunas, Lithuania, in 1940.
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