Dawid Feldberg

Dawid Feldberg received transit visa no. 545 at the Japanese consulate in Kaunas on 31 July 1940. The register records textile adviser, aged 24.

What the register records

Nationality as recorded

Polnisch

Age in 1940

24

Occupation

Textile Adviser

Family, per the Kitade-Bluman list

brother of #452

The journey

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

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 7668, Dawid Feldberg, born 1915 at Lodz, who had come from Lodz; the year agrees with the register's compiled age.
• 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 54 of the Kobe community's list of refugees and their relatives abroad: born 1915 at Lodz; relatives abroad: a brother-in-law, Josef Alenberg, Engel Street 5, Tel Aviv; a brother, Jacob Feldberg, Bme Mitre 1016, Buenos Aires; a cousin, Sam Band, 1123 Clair Avenue West, Toronto, Canada.
• 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…
  Entry 133 (also numbered 155) of the Kobe Jewish Community's refugee register: aged 26, born at Lodz, a clerk, who arrived in Japan on 25 February 1941.
• 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 1124) — the consulate's register of Polish citizens who reached the city, 1934-1943 — the ledger reads: Feldberg Dawid, office clerk, born 1915 Lodz; 171 Muirhead Road; Tokyo-issued passport of 30 May 1941 (Ser. II) on a British Legation Kaunas certificate of 27 July 1940 (F-33) and a Lodz identity card of 1933.
• 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 25 Feb 1941 (line 545)
• "California, San Francisco, Passenger Lists, 1893-1953", FamilySearch — index entry for David Feldberg, 1947: born about 1916, 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 David Feldberg, born about 1916 in Poland, arriving at San Francisco in 1947 on the Marine Lynx. The register's compiled line gives 1915, and the two are 1 year apart, and the name occurs once on the register. The ship's manifest heading says she sailed from Shanghai, and a passenger born in Poland landing at San Francisco in 1947 from Shanghai is the route's end: the refugees who waited out the war there. So the entry is taken as this person's under the archive's rule of 19 September 2026 for records from the route. The sheet is NARA microfilm publication M1410, film 387, image 234, read by the archive on 20 September 2026.
• La-karov ve-la-rachok, 28 March 1946 — the Far Eastern Palestine Committee's list of Jewish refugees in Shanghai (National Library of Israel, Historical Jewish Press)
  The Far Eastern Palestine Committee's list of Jewish refugees in Shanghai, printed by the Jewish Agency Search Bureau's bulletin La-karov ve-la-rachok on 28 March 1946, lists David Feldberg: born 1915 at Lodz, a merchant, arrived in 1941 from Vilno by way of Kobe; the year and the town agree with the 1940 Vilna refugee list, the Kobe Jewish community's refugee register, the Kobe community's list of refugees and their relatives (National Library of Israel, Historical Jewish Press).

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