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

Reached Japan; aided by the Polish ambassador Tadeusz Romer; registered in Kobe for Canada.

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 8257, Berek Treisler, born 1887 at Bedzin, who had come from Warszawa; the year agrees with the register's compiled age, and Będzin agrees with what the archive already holds.
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 340 of the Kobe community's list of refugees and their relatives abroad: aged 54, born at Bedzin, an engineer; relatives abroad: a brother, Louis Trajster, 90 Lewis Avenue, Brooklyn, New York.
JDC Archives, New York, collection AR 33/44 file 53 (the Jewish Community of Kobe's returns to the JDC, 1941; Set I, item 00761) — Set… — "List of refugees who left Japan to places other than Shanghai in the month of May 1941", Nos. 1–321
He left Yokohama on the Heian Maru on 27 May 1941, bound for Canada (the Jewish Community of Kobe's list of departures, May 1941 (JDC Archives, AR 33/44 file 53)). The list reads: "Trajster Berek". (Heian Maru, Yokohama, 27 May 1941.)