Lipa Zilberman

Lipa Zilberman received transit visa no. 405 at the Japanese consulate in Kaunas on 30 July 1940. The register records merchant, aged 25.

What the register records

Nationality as recorded

Polnisch

Age in 1940

25

Occupation

Merchant

Family, per the Kitade-Bluman list

wife Leonia (24)

The journey

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

Travelled with, and never given a number

• Leonia — wife, aged 24

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

• 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…
  6391, Warazawa, 1905, from Warszawa
• 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…
  No 6; cousin M.Wozny 5 Notching St Tel Aviv; Solomon Ware Tel Aviv
• 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 1498); the names closely match this register line — approved by the owner's review, 19 Aug 2026 — LEDGER ENTRY READ: Zylberman Lipa, office clerk, born 23 January 1915 Warsaw, married; registered 14 December 1941; 85 Tiensin Road; Tokyo-issued passport of 4 December 1941 — found on reading the page.