Berthold Weinsberg received transit visa no. 94 at the Japanese consulate in Kaunas on 29 July 1940. The register records manufacturer, aged 55.
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… No.188, age 56, b. Biala, arr 13.1
hunt/familysearch: 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.