Herman Zylbersztein

Herman Zylbersztein received transit visa no. 327 at the Japanese consulate in Kaunas on 30 July 1940. The register records student, aged 27.

What the register records

Nationality as recorded

Polnisch

Age in 1940

27

Occupation

Student

Family, per the Kitade-Bluman list

wife

The journey

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

Where this comes from

• 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…
  6527, Lodz, 1933, from Warazawa
• 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…
  1913 Lodz; uncle Adolf Bok 1613 West Columbia ave Phila Pa
• 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 1252); the names closely match this register line — approved by the owner's review, 19 Aug 2026 — LEDGER ENTRY READ: Zylbersztejn Herman, student, born 1913 Lodz, single; registered 29 October 1941; Warsaw passport of 20 April 1936 extended by the British Legation in Kaunas 13 November 1939 and 5 May 1940 and by the Embassy in Tokyo 5 March 1941 — the same line that USHMM's Flight and Rescue data carries with a blank name.