Ber Miedwiecka

Ber Miedwiecka received transit visa no. 393 at the Japanese consulate in Kaunas on 30 July 1940. Aged 30 in 1940.

What the register records

Nationality as recorded

Polnisch

Age in 1940

30

Family, per the Kitade-Bluman list

son of #485

The journey

Reached Japan; aided by the Polish ambassador Tadeusz Romer; registered in Kobe for Palestine.

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…
  3980, Bjaiystok, 1910
• 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…
  No.117, age 31, b. Bialystok, arr. 21.1.1941 from Vilno
• 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 21 Jan 1941 (line 393)