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…
  The 1940 Vilna refugee list has, at entry 6529, Herman Zylbersztejn, born 1913 at Łódź, who had come from Warszawa; the year agrees with the register's compiled age.
• 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…
  The Kobe community's list of refugees and their relatives abroad: born 1913 at Lodz; relatives abroad: an uncle, Adolf Bok, 1613 West Columbia Avenue, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
• 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 — the ledger reads: 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.
• UNRRA China Office, S-1132-0000-0181, registration of Polish rabbis and rabbinical students, their lists and sailings, Shanghai 1945–1946 (UN Archives, AG-018-001)
  In April 1946 the American Joint Distribution Committee's migration department in Shanghai processed Herman Zylbersztein and his wife Annelise, of 410 Paoting Road, for St Kilda, Victoria. (United Nations Archives, UNRRA China Office records.)
• List of persons processed by the American Joint Distribution Committee's migration department, Shanghai, 1–30 April 1946 (United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, Holocaust Survivors and Victims Database, list 48686)
  The American Joint Distribution Committee's migration department in Shanghai processed Herman Zylbersztein for emigration in April 1946, according to its list for that month, indexed by the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. The name occurs once on the register, and the register already records this line's arrival in Shanghai.

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