Chaim Szpilberg received transit visa no. 1008 at the Japanese consulate in Kaunas on 3 August 1940. The register records clerk, aged 27.
What the register records
Nationality as recorded
Polnisch
Age in 1940
27
Occupation
Clerk
The journey
Reached Japan; aided by the Polish ambassador Tadeusz Romer; registered in Kobe for Palestine.
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… 245; 1913 Kolki; brother-Lui Szpilberg 3654 St.Lawrence B.L.V.D. Montreal; sister Chawa Szpilberg 20 Berochow street Tel Aviv