Berko Gutenberg

Berko Gutenberg received transit visa no. 716 at the Japanese consulate in Kaunas on 1 August 1940. The register records engineer, aged 43.

What the register records

Nationality as recorded

Polnisch

Age in 1940

43

Occupation

Engineer

The journey

Reached Japan; reached Shanghai.

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 1760, Berko Gutenberg, born 1898 at Biała Podlaska, who came from Warszawa; the year agrees with the register's compiled age.
• 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 1326) — the consulate's register of Polish citizens who reached the city, 1934-1943 — the ledger reads: Gutenberg Berko vel Bernard, chemist, born 1897 Biala Podlaska; Tokyo-issued passport of 21 November 1941.
• Arolsen Archives, 3.1.1.4 (Shanghai), unit 19970: list of Polish Jewish refugees who came from Vilna via Kobe to Shanghai and died there be… — a typed list giving name, dates of birth and death, the Jewish date, the grave, and nationality
  Berko Gutenberg died in Shanghai on 20 October 1942 (9 Heshvan 5703) and was buried in the Baikal Road Jewish cemetery, according to the list of Polish Jewish refugees from Vilna via Kobe buried there, now in the Arolsen Archives. The list gives his birth date as 2 July 1897; the register's compiled age of 43 and the 1940 Vilna refugee list's birth year of 1898 agree, and the name occurs once on the register. He had registered with the Polish consulate in Shanghai.
• 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…
  The Kobe community's list of refugees and their relatives abroad has Berko, also called Bernard, Gutenberg, aged 44, born at Biala Podlaska, an engineer.

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