Berta Szrajer

Visa no. 473 · Kaunas, 31 July 1940

Berta Szrajer received transit visa no. 473 at the Japanese consulate in Kaunas on 31 July 1940. Aged 64 in 1940.

What the register records

Reached Japan; registered in Kobe for Mexico.

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 5520, Berta Szrajer, born 1875 at Kalisz, who had come from Kalisz; the year agrees with the register's age.
"California, San Francisco, Passenger Lists, 1893-1953", FamilySearch — index entry for Berta Szrajer, 1941: born about 1876, Poland. Digitised from NARA microfilm publication M1410 (passenger lists of vessels arriving at San Francisco).…
FamilySearch's index of the San Francisco passenger lists, read by the archive on 20 September 2026, has Berta Szrajer, born about 1876 in Poland, arriving at San Francisco in 1941. The register's compiled line gives 1876, and the two agree. The name occurs once on the register, and a Polish-born passenger landing at San Francisco in 1941 fits the route through Japan, so the entry is taken as this person's under the archive's rule of 19 September 2026 for records from the route.