Bronislawa Trepman

Bronislawa Trepman received transit visa no. 710 at the Japanese consulate in Kaunas on 1 August 1940. The register records clerk, aged 36.

What the register records

Nationality as recorded

Polnisch

Age in 1940

36

Occupation

Clerk

The journey

Reached Japan; reached Shanghai.

What is known

Bronka Bronisława Trepman, born Karkovska, held visa No.710 of 1 August 1940 and survived the war in China. Her husband Mieczysław Elimelech Trepman is recorded in Vilna; she surfaces once more in an immigration record — Paris, 25 October 1947 — and then vanishes from the record. She left no descendants. A relative by marriage, Rose Feldman, pieced the fragments together decades later: "That is all I could piece together... Hope I connected things correctly." Her record stands here so that the trail, if it exists anywhere, has somewhere to lead back to.

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…
  j615; 1904
• 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…
  No.184, age 37, b. Warsaw, Clerk, arr 13.1
• 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 1062); the names closely match this register line — approved by the owner's review, 19 Aug 2026 — LEDGER ENTRY READ: Trepman Bronislawa, office clerk, born 1904 Warsaw, WIDOW; registered 27 June 1941; 359 Avenue du Roi Albert; Tokyo-issued passport of 24 January 1941 (Ser. II 290468) on a Kaunas certificate.
• 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 13 Jan 1941 (line 710)
• Rose Feldman genealogy-group exchange with Mark Halpern (owner submission, Jul 2026): Bronka Bronisława TREPMAN née KARKOVSKA — Sugihara visa No.710; listed on the JewishGen Lithuania database; husband Mieczysław Elimelech Trepman (Vilna…
• Shanghai Ledger, page 133 (left): entries 1058-1065, registered 21 June - 15 July 1941: Perlberger Ferdynand (merchant, b. 1912), Krieser Abraham Aron (student, b. 1 Oct 1920 Leipzig, on a Leipzig-consulate passport), Weitz Joel Moses (b…
• Shanghai Ledger, page 133 (right): entries 1058-1065, registered 21 June - 15 July 1941: Perlberger Ferdynand (merchant, b. 1912), Krieser Abraham Aron (student, b. 1 Oct 1920 Leipzig, on a Leipzig-consulate passport), Weitz Joel Moses (…