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…
  1760, Biala Podlaska, b.1898
• 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 — LEDGER ENTRY READ: Gutenberg Berko vel Bernard, chemist, born 1897 Biala Podlaska; Tokyo-issued passport of 21 November 1941.