Berek Trejster
Visa no. 781 · Kaunas, 2 August 1940
Berek Trejster received transit visa no. 781 at the Japanese consulate in Kaunas on 2 August 1940. The register records electrical engineer, aged 52.
What the register records Nationality as recorded Polnisch Age in 1940 52 Occupation Electrical 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… 8257, Bedzin, 1887 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…340; 54; Bedzin; Engin.; brother Louis Trajster 90 Lewis Ave Brooklyn NY
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Berek Trejster is one of 2,140 people recorded in the surviving register of the transit
visas Chiune Sugihara issued at the Japanese consulate in Kaunas, Lithuania, in 1940.
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