Berko Dworecki received transit visa no. 851 at the Japanese consulate in Kaunas on 2 August 1940. The register records merchant, aged 47.
What the register records
Nationality as recorded
Polnisch
Age in 1940
47
Occupation
Merchant
Family, per the Kitade-Bluman list
father of #854, wife Rebeka (48), daughter Ester (16)
The journey
Reached Japan; aided by the Polish ambassador Tadeusz Romer; registered in Kobe for USA.
Travelled with, and never given a number
Rebeka — wife, aged 48
Ester — daughter, aged 16
The register recorded visa holders. It did not reliably record the wives and children who travelled on somebody else’s visa, so these people have no entry of their own and cannot be searched for. Where the archive has recovered a name, it is here.
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… No.32, age 48, b. Lida, Bookkeeper, from Kaunas
hunt/familysearch: US arrival manifest: Berko Dworecki, Seattle, 1941 "Seattle Passenger Lists", FamilySearch, entry for Berko Dworecki, 1941. Ship: Heian Maru. Matched from the Heian Maru's Polish-born passenger list (198 people, of whom 57 matched the register). Register No.851 'Berko Dworecki' records age 47; the manifest gives born 1894, arriving 1941. Conf