Hirsz Chaim Zylberberg

Hirsz Chaim Zylberberg received transit visa no. 843 at the Japanese consulate in Kaunas on 2 August 1940. The register records journalist, aged 33.

What the register records

Nationality as recorded

Polnisch

Age in 1940

33

Occupation

Journalist

The journey

Reached Japan; reached Shanghai.

Where this comes from

• "California, San Francisco, Passenger Lists, 1893-1953", FamilySearch — index entry for Chaim Silberberg, 1947: born about 1901, Poland. Digitised from NARA microfilm publication M1410 (passenger lists of vessels arriving at San Francisc…
  FamilySearch's index of the San Francisco passenger lists, read by the archive on 20 September 2026, has Chaim Silberberg, born about 1901 in Poland, arriving at San Francisco in 1947. The register's compiled line gives 1907. A lead only: the birth years are 6 years apart, which is more than the archive accepts without the sheet.
• 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 371 of the Kobe community's list of refugees and their relatives abroad: aged 34, born at Warsaw, a journalist; relatives abroad: a cousin, G. Wohlstein, 5 Machne Josef Street, Tel Aviv.
• 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…
  Hirsz Chaim Zilberberg registered with the Polish Consulate in Shanghai in December 1941 as Hirsz Chaim Bolesław Zilberberg, a journalist, born in Warsaw on 20 April 1907, single. (Polish Ministry of Foreign Affairs Archives, the Shanghai consulate's register, digitised by the Library of Congress.)
• 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 7728, Zylberberg Hersz Chaim, born 1907 at Warsaw, who came from Warsaw; the year agrees with the age the register gives.
• 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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