Lejzor Berenbaum
Visa no. 51 · Kaunas, 27 July 1940
Lejzor Berenbaum received transit visa no. 51 at the Japanese consulate in Kaunas on 27 July 1940. Aged 40 in 1940.
What the register records
- Nationality as recorded
- Polnisch
- Age in 1940
- 40
- Family, per the Kitade-Bluman list
- husband of #52, child (3)
The journey
Reached Japan; registered in Kobe for Australia.
Where this comes from
- "California, Los Angeles, Passenger Lists, 1907-1948", FamilySearch — index entry for Lejzor-Elja Berenbaum, 1941: born about 1901, Warsaw, Poland. Digitised from NARA microfilm publication M1764 (passenger lists of vessels arriving at L…
FamilySearch's index of the Los Angeles passenger lists, read by the archive on 20 September 2026, has Lejzor-Elja Berenbaum, born about 1901 in Warsaw, Poland, arriving at Los Angeles in 1941. The register's compiled line gives 1900, and the two are 1 year apart. The name occurs once on the register, and a Polish-born passenger landing at Los Angeles 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. - The Heiyo Maru, Yokohama 15 February 1941 to Valparaíso 5 March 1941 — the passenger list, in FamilySearch's index of Chilean arrival records (collection 1916084); found by David Rosen, 6 October 2026
Lejzor Berenbaum sailed from Yokohama on the Heiyo Maru on 15 February 1941 with his wife Roza and their child of three, reached Valparaíso on 5 March 1941, and was bound on to Buenos Aires — found by David Rosen in the index of the Chilean arrival records. The register's family for this line is a wife Roza and a child of three, and the voyage from Japan in early 1941 fits the visa of July 1940; the compilers had recorded Australia as the intended destination. The Los Angeles passenger lists also index the Berenbaums arriving in 1941, as the page records above: the Heiyo Maru's South American route called at Los Angeles, and the archive reads the two records as one voyage, though the dates the two indexes give have not been reconciled.
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