Benedykt Birsztejn

Benedykt Birsztejn received transit visa no. 632 at the Japanese consulate in Kaunas on 1 August 1940. The register records engineer, aged 38.

What the register records

Nationality as recorded

Polnisch

Age in 1940

38

Occupation

Engineer

The journey

Reached Japan; aided by the Polish ambassador Tadeusz Romer; registered in Kobe for Canada.

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…
  440, Warszawa, b.1901, from Warszawa
• 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…
  #1 Polish, 39, b. Warsaw, Engineer, from Vilno, arr 5.12.40
• hunt/familysearch: US arrival manifest: Benedykt Birsztejn, Seattle, 1941
  "Seattle Passenger Lists", FamilySearch, entry for Benedykt Birsztejn, 1941. Ship: Heian Maru. Matched from the Heian Maru's Polish-born passenger list (198 people, of whom 57 matched the register). Register No.632 'Benedyki Birsztejn' records age 38; the manifest gives born 1902, arriving 19
• M/S Heian Maru manifest, sheet 21 — List or Manifest of Alien Passengers, sailed Yokohama 27 May 1941, arrived Seattle 7 June 1941, all thirty admitted (NARA M1383, roll 262, Seattle Passenger Lists; retrieved with the owner signed in).…
  M/S Heian Maru, Yokohama 27 May - Seattle 7 June 1941; line 2: 39, engineer, b. Warsaw, last residence Lisbon, Portugal