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…
  The 1940 Vilna refugee list has, at entry 7336, Lipa Zylberman, born 1915 at Warszawa, who had come from Warszawa; the year agrees with the register's compiled age, and his wife Leonia, born 1915, stands on the line above.
• 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…
  Entry 6 of the Kobe community's list of refugees and their relatives abroad gives as relatives abroad a cousin, M. Wozny, 5 Notching Street, Tel Aviv; Solomon Ware, Tel Aviv.
• 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…
  Entry 277 of the Kobe community's list of refugees and their relatives abroad, with a wife: born 1915 at Warszawa, Polish; relatives abroad: a brother, Henryk Zylberman, (illegible), Rua Maranchao, Sao Paulo; an uncle, Zulibor Akiba and Michal, care of Urbex Trading Corporation, 1133 Broadway, New York.
• 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 — the ledger reads: 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.
• Public Record Office Victoria — the probate and administration index
  Lipa Zylberman and his wife Leonia settled in Melbourne. Leonia Zylberman died at Kew on 9 December 1969. (Public Record Office Victoria, probate index.)

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