Adam Bryskier

Adam Bryskier received transit visa no. 696 at the Japanese consulate in Kaunas on 1 August 1940. The register records electrician, aged 26.

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What the register records

Nationality as recorded

Polnisch

Age in 1940

26

Occupation

Electrician

The journey

Reached Japan; reached Shanghai; registered in Kobe for South America.

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 737, Adam Bryskier, born 1913 at Warszawa, who came from Warszawa; 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 37 of the Kobe community's list of refugees and their relatives abroad: aged 28, born at Warsaw, a worker; relatives abroad: an aunt, Mosenthal, 685 Auterdon Street, Newark, New York; an uncle, K. Hamer, Comonfort 48, Interior 50 A, Mexico; an uncle, I. Szafir, Keren Kajemeth Street, Jerusalem.
• 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 1302) — the consulate's register of Polish citizens who reached the city, 1934-1943 — the ledger reads: Bryskier Adam, electrician, born 20 August 1913 Warsaw, married; 1 Kiming Road; passport issued by the Shanghai consulate 17 November 1941 (B-147, Ser. III 1700).
• La-karov ve-la-rachok, 21 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 21 March 1946, lists Adam Bryskier: born 1913 at Warsaw, an electrician, arrived in 1941 from Vilnius by way of Siberia; the year and the town agree with the 1940 Vilna refugee list, the Kobe community's list of refugees and their relatives (National Library of Israel, Historical Jewish Press).
• Yad Vashem Archives, Jerusalem — the card file of Jewish refugees from Poland who found refuge in various countries, 1939–1941
  Yad Vashem's card file of Jewish refugees from Poland who found refuge in various countries, 1939–1941, has a card for Adam Bryskier, aged 26, of Warsaw, who was in Wilno during the war; his age and his city agree with this register line. Credit: Yad Vashem Archives.
• Arolsen Archives, Bad Arolsen, collection 3.1.3.1 (AJDC Emigration Service, Paris, index cards): Adam Bryskier's index cards, documents 80190135 and 80190136
  In January 1949 Adam Bryskier, an electrotechnician born at Warsaw in August 1913, was in the care of the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee's emigration service, first in Shanghai and then in France, with Malka Bryskier; their destination was Paraguay. Index cards, AJDC Emigration Service Paris, held by the Arolsen Archives, Bad Arolsen (ITS Digital Archive).
• Shanghai Ledger, page 163 (left): entries 1298-1305, registered 20 November 1941 on passports issued by the Shanghai consulate itself (series III) 7-17 November 1941: the Kozakiewicz family of Kowel — Sura (b. 1895), Dawid (student, b. 1…
• Shanghai Ledger, page 163 (right): entries 1298-1305, registered 20 November 1941 on passports issued by the Shanghai consulate itself (series III) 7-17 November 1941: the Kozakiewicz family of Kowel — Sura (b. 1895), Dawid (student, b.…
• Arolsen Archives, Bad Arolsen, collection 3.1.3.1 (AJDC Emigration Service, Paris, index cards): Adam Bryskier's index cards, documents 80190135 and 80190136

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