Henryk Zylberlast received transit visa no. 323 at the Japanese consulate in Kaunas on 30 July 1940.
What the register records
Nationality as recorded
Polnisch
Where this comes from
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 747 of the Kobe Jewish Community's refugee register: aged 28, born at Lodz, a clerk, who arrived in Japan from Vilnius on 13 February 1941.
Yad Vashem Archives, Jerusalem — the card file of Jewish refugees from Poland who found refuge in various countries, 1939–1941 Yad Vashem's card file of Jewish refugees from Poland who found refuge in various countries, 1939–1941, has a card for Henryk Zilberlast, who was in Wilno during the war. The archive attaches it under its rule of 19 September 2026: the card file is a record of the refugees in Wilno, where the road through Sugihara's visas began; the full name occurs once on the register; and the card places the person in Wilno in 1939–41, on the road to Sugihara's visas. Credit: Yad Vashem Archives.