Mordchaj Bekerman

Mordchaj Bekerman received transit visa no. 322 at the Japanese consulate in Kaunas on 30 July 1940. The register records clerk, aged 29.

What the register records

Nationality as recorded

Polnisch

Age in 1940

29

Occupation

Clerk

Family, per the Kitade-Bluman list

brother of #319

The journey

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

Where this comes from

• 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 1096); the names closely match this register line — approved by the owner's review, 19 Aug 2026 — the ledger reads: Bekerman Mordchaj, office clerk, born 29 June 1911 Ciechanow, single; registered 23 August 1941; 765 Tongshan Road; passport B-135 issued by the Shanghai consulate itself 22 August 1941 — with his brother Izrael (merchant, b. 20 January 1909 Ciechanow, entry 1097, passport B-134), who is not in the Kaunas register.
• 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 516, Mordcha Bekerman, born 1911 at Ciechanów, who had come from Ciechanów, entered directly below his brother Izrael (entry 515, register No. 319). The year agrees with the register's compiled age.
• JewishGen Online Worldwide Burial Registry (JOWBR) — Mount Sinai Memorial Parks, Los Angeles
  A possible record, not yet confirmed as this person: a Morton Bekerman, born 29 June 1911 and died 6 January 1990, is buried at Mount Sinai Memorial Parks in Los Angeles. In the JewishGen burial registry, read 24 October 2026.

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