Berthold Weinsberg

Berthold Weinsberg received transit visa no. 94 at the Japanese consulate in Kaunas on 29 July 1940. The register records manufacturer, aged 55.

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What the register records

Nationality as recorded

Polnisch

Age in 1940

55

Occupation

Manufacturer

Family, per the Kitade-Bluman list

child Ryszard (15)

The journey

Reached Japan; aided by the Polish ambassador Tadeusz Romer; registered in Kobe for Canada.

Travelled with, and never given a number

• Ryszard — child, aged 15

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 188 of the Kobe Jewish Community's refugee register: aged 56, born at Biala, who arrived in Japan on 13 January 1941.
• US arrival manifest: Bertold Weinsberg, Seattle, 1941
  "Seattle Passenger Lists", FamilySearch, entry for Bertold Weinsberg, 1941. Ship: Hikawa Maru. Matched from the Hikawa Maru's Polish-born passenger list (162 people, 35 matched). Register No.94 'Berthold einsberg' records age 55; the manifest gives born 1886, arriving 1941.
• "Washington, King, Seattle, Passenger Lists, 1890-1957", FamilySearch — index entry for Bertold Weinsberg, 1941: born about 1886, Polish. Digitised from NARA microfilm publication M1383 (passenger and crew lists of vessels arriving at Se…
  FamilySearch's index of the Seattle passenger lists, read by the archive on 20 September 2026, has Bertold Weinsberg, born about 1886 in Polish, arriving at Seattle in 1941. The register's compiled line gives 1885, and the two are 1 year apart. The name occurs once on the register, and a passenger born in Poland 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 Hikawa Maru, arriving at Seattle in 1941: list or manifest of alien passengers, the sheet that names Bertold Weinsberg — US National Archives, Record Group 85 (Immigration and Naturalization Service), Passenger and Crew Lists of Vess…
• Arriving at Seattle: the continuation sheet, with the relatives named and the destinations, for the sheet that names Berthold Weinsberg — US National Archives, Record Group 85 (Immigration and Naturalization Service), Passenger and Crew…

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