Wiktor Nowinski received transit visa no. 1002 at the Japanese consulate in Kaunas on 3 August 1940. The register records phd, aged 37.
What the register records
Nationality as recorded
Polnisch
Age in 1940
37
Occupation
PhD
The journey
Reached Japan; aided by the Polish ambassador Tadeusz Romer; registered in Kobe for Argentina.
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.9, age 37, Philosophy Doctor