Szimin Bernstein

Szimin Bernstein received transit visa no. 260 at the Japanese consulate in Kaunas on 30 July 1940. The register records lawyer, aged 37.

What the register records

Nationality as recorded

Polnisch

Age in 1940

37

Occupation

Lawyer

The journey

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

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…
  The Kobe community's list of refugees and their relatives abroad: born 1904 at Krakow; relatives abroad: B. Kanner, New York.
• 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: "Bernstein Szymon — Polish — Kobe — Burma". (Taiyo Maru, Kobe, 18 July 1941, destination Burma.)
• The censuses of Kraków, 1870–1921 (Archiwum Narodowe w Krakowie, zespoły 29/86–29/91), as indexed by archival.name
  Szymon Bernstein was born at Kraków on 28 July 1904: the 1910 census of Kraków counts him as a child in a household of the Kazimierz district, and the 1921 census has him again. The match rests on more than the name: the Kobe community's list gives this line the same birth year and birthplace. (Read on archival.name's index of the Kraków censuses; the census books are in the National Archive in Kraków.)
• 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…
  The Kobe Jewish Community's refugee register lists Szymon Berensztein, aged 37, born at Krakow, a lawyer, who reached Japan on 13 February 1941. Sugihara's ledger writes the name Szimin Bernstein; the register writes Szymon Berensztein.

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