Berek Litman Winter

Berek Litman Winter received transit visa no. 977 at the Japanese consulate in Kaunas on 3 August 1940. The register records manufacturer, aged 30.

What the register records

Nationality as recorded

Polnisch

Age in 1940

30

Occupation

Manufacturer

Family, per the Kitade-Bluman list

wife Greta

The journey

Reached Japan; reached Shanghai; registered in Kobe for Cuba and then USA.

Where this comes from

• 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 293 of the Kobe community's list of refugees and their relatives abroad: born 1910 at Brzeziny, Polish; relatives abroad: an uncle, Luser Hauser, Brooklyn, New York.
• 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 408 of the Kobe Jewish Community's refugee register: the line refers to page 36.
• 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 748 of the Kobe Jewish Community's refugee register: aged 31, born at Brzeziny, a manufacturer, who travelled from Vilnius.
• 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 Feb 1941 (line 977)
• 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…
  Registered with the Polish Consulate in Shanghai (ledger entry 1469) — found on reading the ledger page itself — the ledger reads: Winter Berek Litman, INDUSTRIALIST, of Brzeziny; 1 Chiny Road; registered 13 December 1941 on a passport issued by the Shanghai consulate 1 December 1941 (W-103) — found on reading the page.
• Yad Vashem Archives, Jerusalem — the card file of Jewish refugees from Poland who found refuge in various countries, 1939–1941
  Yad Vashem's card file of Jewish refugees from Poland who found refuge in various countries, 1939–1941, has a card for Berek Winter, born 1910, of Brzeziny, who was in Wilno during the war; the year and the town agree with this register line. Credit: Yad Vashem Archives.

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