Izaak Goldberg

Izaak Goldberg received transit visa no. 830 at the Japanese consulate in Kaunas on 2 August 1940. The register records lawyer, aged 28.

What the register records

Nationality as recorded

Polnisch

Age in 1940

28

Occupation

Lawyer

Family, per the Kitade-Bluman list

husband of #829

The journey

Reached Japan; registered in Kobe for USA.

What is known

A group of thirty people, all possessing a visa in the name of 'Jakub Goldberg,' were bounced back and forth on the open sea for several weeks before finally being allowed to pass through Tsuruga.

A group of thirty people, all possessing a visa of 'Jakub Goldberg,' were shuttled back and forth on the open sea for several weeks before finally being allowed to pass through Tsuruga, Japan.

A group of thirty people, all possessing a visa of "Jakub Goldberg", were bounced back and forth on the open sea for several weeks before finally being allowed to pass through Tsuruga.

A group of thirty people, all possessing a visa of "Jakub Goldberg", were shuttled back and forth on the open sea for several weeks before finally being allowed to pass through Tsuruga.

Where this comes from

• 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…
  Entry 51 of the Kobe Jewish Community's refugee register: aged 28, born at Warsaw, a merchant, who arrived in Japan on 13 January 1941.
• 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 15 Jan 1941 (line 830)
• "California, San Francisco, Passenger Lists, 1893-1953", FamilySearch — index entry for Izaak Goldberg, 1941: born about 1913, Poland. Digitised from NARA microfilm publication M1410 (passenger lists of vessels arriving at San Francisco)…
  FamilySearch's index of the San Francisco passenger lists, read by the archive on 20 September 2026, has Izaak Goldberg, born about 1913 in Poland, arriving at San Francisco in 1941. The register's compiled line gives 1912, and the two are 1 year apart. The name occurs once on the register, and a Polish-born passenger landing at San Francisco in 1941 fits the route through Japan, so the entry is taken as this person's under the archive's rule of 19 September 2026 for records from the route.
• 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 I p. 3 — SS Yawata Maru, arrived Honolulu 18 April 1941, due San Francisco 24 April 1941
  Dr Isaac Goldberg, a lawyer, and his wife Maria were listed among the aliens aboard the Yawata Maru, which reached Honolulu on 18 April 1941 bound for San Francisco; their address was to be 371 Long Beach Road, Oceanside, Long Island (JWB Hawaii list, forwarded to the JDC; JDC Archives, AR 33/44 file 53). The list reads: "Goldberg, Dr. Isaac — 28 — M — Polish — Lawyer — 371 Longbeach Rd., Oceanside, L. I." and further down "Goldberg, Mrs. S. Maria — M — 26 — F — Polish — 371 Longbeach Rd, Oceanside, L. I." (Yawata Maru, Honolulu 18 Apr 1941, San Francisco 24 Apr 1941.)
• Manifest of alien passengers, SS Yawata Maru, sailing from Yokohama April 10th 1941, arrived San Francisco April 24th 1941 (US National Archives, M1410, film 369; read on FamilySearch's copy)
  He and his wife reached San Francisco on 24 April 1941 on the Yawata Maru from Yokohama with American immigration visas issued at Yokohama on 2 April, bound for a cousin on Long Island, according to the passenger list held by the National Archives (FamilySearch's copy). The list gives his birthplace as Warsaw and his father's address as Antwerp.
• The numbered Sugihara visa list, the page of 2 August 1940 carrying Nos. 795 to 865 (among them No. 805, Szaps Jaskolka), photographed beside a ruler.
• Sugihara
• Chiune Sugihara - Wikipedia

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