Berko Dworecki

Berko Dworecki received transit visa no. 851 at the Japanese consulate in Kaunas on 2 August 1940. The register records merchant, aged 47.

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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…
  Entry 32 of the Kobe Jewish Community's refugee register: aged 48, born at Lida, a bookkeeper, who travelled from Kaunas.
• 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
• 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 25 Jan 1941 (line 851)
• "Washington, King, Seattle, Passenger Lists, 1890-1957", FamilySearch — index entry for Berko Dworecki, 1941: born about 1894, Poland. Digitised from NARA microfilm publication M1383 (passenger and crew lists of vessels arriving at Seatt…
  FamilySearch's index of the Seattle passenger lists, read by the archive on 20 September 2026, has Berko Dworecki, born about 1894 in Poland, arriving at Seattle in 1941. The register's compiled line gives 1893, and the two are 1 year apart. The name occurs once on the register, and a Polish-born passenger landing at Seattle 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.
• 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.
• The Heian Maru, arriving at Seattle in 1941: list or manifest of alien passengers, the sheet that names Berko Dworecki — US National Archives, Record Group 85 (Immigration and Naturalization Service), Passenger and Crew Lists of Vessels…
• The Heian Maru, arriving at Seattle in 1941: the continuation sheet, with the relatives named and the destinations, for the sheet that names Berko Dworecki — US National Archives, Record Group 85 (Immigration and Naturalization Service),…

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