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…
  293, 1910 Brzeziny, Polish; uncle Luser Hauser Brooklyn NY
• 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.408, see page 36
• 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 — LEDGER ENTRY READ: 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.