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

Reached Japan; aided by the Polish ambassador Tadeusz Romer; registered in Kobe for Burma.

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 556, Hersz Bregman, born 1911; the year agrees with the register's compiled age.
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 40 of the Kobe community's list of refugees and their relatives abroad: aged 30, born at Olewsk, a timber expert; relatives abroad: a brother, L. Bregman, 1137 South 3 Road, Alhambra, California.
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. 5–7 — "List… — "List of persons who left Japan for Shanghai in the month of July 1941", Nos. 1–15
He left Kobe on the Taiyo Maru on 18 July 1941, bound for Burma (the Jewish Community of Kobe's list of departures, July 1941 (JDC Archives, AR 33/44 file 53)). The list reads: "Bregman Hersz". (Taiyo Maru, Kobe, 18 July 1941, destination Burma.)