Gustaw Bitsztejn received transit visa no. 1000 at the Japanese consulate in Kaunas on 3 August 1940. The register records chemical engineer, aged 60.
What the register records
Nationality as recorded
Polnisch
Age in 1940
60
Occupation
Chemical Engineer
Family, per the Kitade-Bluman list
wife Malgorzata (52), son Oscar (29)
The journey
Reached Japan; registered in Kobe for USA.
Travelled with, and never given a number
Malgorzata — wife, aged 52
Oscar — son, aged 29
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.