Ludwig Berliner received transit visa no. 60 at the Japanese consulate in Kaunas on 27 July 1940. The register records lawyer, aged 33.
What the register records
Nationality as recorded
German
Age in 1940
33
Occupation
Lawyer
Family, per the Kitade-Bluman list
wife Bertha (29)
The journey
Reached Japan; reached Shanghai; registered in Kobe for USA.
Travelled with, and never given a number
Bertha — wife, aged 29
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.
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… 10; 33; b. Katowice; lawyer; German; Ernst Berliner Harvard University Cambridge USA
hunt/jdc_shanghai: JDC Shanghai migration file: BERLINER Ludwig JDC Archives, New York collection AR3344, 'Complete Shanghai Migration Files' (NY_AR3344_00014), page 7: BERLINER Ludwig, file no. 7927. Match: register No.60 'Ludwig Berliner', and the register independently records this person as reaching Shanghai. Both name parts agree. NOTE: the index carries no
hunt/jdc_shanghai: JDC Shanghai migration file: BERLINER Dr. Ludwig JDC Archives, New York collection AR3344, 'Complete Shanghai Migration Files' (NY_AR3344_00014), page 7: BERLINER Dr. Ludwig, file no. 3675. Match: register No.60 'Ludwig Berliner', and the register independently records this person as reaching Shanghai. Both name parts agree. NOTE: the index carrie