Jakob Bieberstein

Jakob Bieberstein received transit visa no. 325 at the Japanese consulate in Kaunas on 30 July 1940. The register records teacher, aged 41.

What the register records

Nationality as recorded

Polnisch

Age in 1940

41

Occupation

Teacher

Family, per the Kitade-Bluman list

wife Pauline (28)

The journey

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

Travelled with, and never given a number

• Pauline — wife, aged 28

The register recorded visa holders. It did not reliably record the wives and children who travelled on somebody else’s visa, so these people have no entry of their own and cannot be searched for. Where the archive has recovered a name, it is here.

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 46 of the Kobe Jewish Community's refugee register: aged 43, born at Wloclawek, a clerk, who arrived in Japan from Vilnius on 13 February 1941.
• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, Holocaust Survivors and Victims Database — the Flight and Rescue electronic dataset (source 20725): USHMM's own transcription of the Kaunas register, 2,140 persons with citizenship, visa type, iss…
  USHMM Flight and Rescue dataset: arrived in Japan 13 Feb 1941 (line 325)
• "California, San Francisco, Passenger Lists, 1893-1953", FamilySearch — index entry for Jakub Bibersztein, 1947: born about 1898, Polish. Digitised from NARA microfilm publication M1410 (passenger lists of vessels arriving at San Francis…
  FamilySearch's index of the San Francisco passenger lists, read by the archive on 20 September 2026, has Jakub Bibersztein, born about 1898 in Polish, arriving at San Francisco in 1947 on the Marine Adder. The register's compiled line gives 1899, and the two are 1 year apart, and the name occurs once on the register. The ship's manifest heading says she sailed from Shanghai, and a passenger born in Poland landing at San Francisco in 1947 from Shanghai is the route's end: the refugees who waited out the war there. So the entry is taken as this person's under the archive's rule of 19 September 2026 for records from the route. The sheet is NARA microfilm publication M1410, film 394, image 774, read by the archive on 20 September 2026.
• 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. 24–32 — April 1941 (and a May continuation sheet)
  He left Japan for Shanghai on the Nagasaki Maru, from Nagasaki, 8 April 1941 (the Jewish Community of Kobe's list of refugees who left Japan for Shanghai, April 1941 (JDC Archives, AR 33/44 file 53)). The list reads: "Biberstein Jakob — Polish — Nagasaki". (Nagasaki Maru, Nagasaki, 8 April 1941, Shanghai.)
• La-karov ve-la-rachok, 21 March 1946 — the Far Eastern Palestine Committee's list of Jewish refugees in Shanghai (National Library of Israel, Historical Jewish Press)
  The Far Eastern Palestine Committee's list of Jewish refugees in Shanghai, printed by the Jewish Agency Search Bureau's bulletin La-karov ve-la-rachok on 21 March 1946, lists Jakob Bieberstein: born 1898 at Wloclawek, a merchant, arrived in 1941 from Wilna by way of Siberia; the year and the town agree with the Kobe Jewish community's refugee register (National Library of Israel, Historical Jewish Press).

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