Rachela Goldberg

Rachela Goldberg received transit visa no. 838 at the Japanese consulate in Kaunas on 2 August 1940. Aged 16 in 1940.

What the register records

Nationality as recorded

Polnisch

Age in 1940

16

The journey

Destination given in the Kitade-Bluman list: USA.

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 1667, Rachel Goldberg, born 1927 at Bielsko, who came from Bielsko; the town, Bielsko, agrees with what the archive already holds for this line, though the year is three years from the register's compiled age.
• 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 7348, Racheka Goldberg, born 1924 at Warszawa, who had come from Warszawa; the year agrees with the register's compiled age.
• "California, Los Angeles, Passenger Lists, 1907-1948", FamilySearch — index entry for Rachel Goldberg, 1940: born about 1927, Bielsko, Poland. Digitised from NARA microfilm publication M1764 (passenger lists of vessels arriving at Los An…
  FamilySearch's index of the Los Angeles passenger lists, read by the archive on 20 September 2026, has Rachel Goldberg, born about 1927 in Bielsko, Poland, arriving at Los Angeles in 1940. The register's compiled line gives 1924, and the two are 3 years apart. The name occurs once on the register, and a Polish-born passenger landing at Los Angeles in 1940 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.
• 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.

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