Szymon Bieberstein

Szymon Bieberstein received transit visa no. 324 at the Japanese consulate in Kaunas on 30 July 1940. The register records chinaware manufacturer, aged 46.

What the register records

Nationality as recorded

Polnisch

Age in 1940

46

Occupation

Chinaware Manufacturer

The journey

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

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…
  Entry 19 of the Kobe community's list of refugees and their relatives abroad: aged 47, born at Wloclawek, a manufacturer; relatives abroad: an uncle, L. Bieberstein, 21 Penmat Avenue, New York; a brother-in-law, B. Sznycer, 35 West 53rd Street, New York.
• Archive note, 30 August 2026 — a correction to the Kobe attributions. Thirteen register entries had been matched to two lines each of the Kobe refugee register, on the strength of a similar surname. In seven cases the two lines described…
  This entry had been given Kobe entry 16 as well as entry 19. Entry 16, on page 9, is BERNSTEIN Szymon, born 1904 at Krakow — a different surname and a different man. Entry 19 is Biberstein of Wloclawek, a manufacturer, whose uncle L. Bieberstein lived at 21 Bennett Avenue, New York; that agrees with the register's chinaware manufacturer of 46, and it is the one that remains.
• "California, San Francisco, Passenger Lists, 1893-1953", FamilySearch — index entry for Szymon Bieberstein, 1941: born about 1895, Poland. Digitised from NARA microfilm publication M1410 (passenger lists of vessels arriving at San Franci…
  FamilySearch's index of the San Francisco passenger lists, read by the archive on 20 September 2026, has Szymon Bieberstein, born about 1895 in Poland, arriving at San Francisco in 1941. The register's compiled line gives 1894, and the two are 1 year apart. The name occurs once on the register, and a Polish-born passenger landing at San Francisco in 1941 fits the route through Japan, so the entry is taken as this person's under the archive's rule of 19 September 2026 for records from the route.
• Manifest of alien passengers, SS President Pierce, sailing from Kobe 14 March 1941, arrived San Francisco 29 March 1941 (US National Archives, M1410, film 368; read on FamilySearch's copy)
  He arrived at San Francisco on 29 March 1941 aboard the President Pierce from Kobe, on a US visitor's visa issued in Moscow on 18 February 1941; the manifest gives his birthplace as Włocławek, his trade as chinaware manufacturer, his last home as Vilnius, and his destination as an uncle, Ludwig Bieberstein, in New York (manifest held by the US National Archives, read on FamilySearch's copy).

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