Praszkier Hersz received transit visa no. 1048 at the Japanese consulate in Kaunas on 5 August 1940. The register records farmer, aged 29.
What the register records
Nationality as recorded
Polnisch
Age in 1940
29
Occupation
Farmer
The journey
Reached Japan; reached Shanghai.
What is known
This is a Japanese railway travel application (鉄道旅行願) filed with the Hyogo Prefecture Foreign Affairs Section by refugee Hersz Praszkier. The document requests permission to travel by rail from Kobe to Tokyo/Yokohama via the Tokaido line, dated 19 August, with a planned return around 24 August. It bears the stamp of the Jewish Community of Kobe (Ashkenazim), indicating Praszkier was among the refugees who reached Japan and stayed in Kobe.
A letter from the Jewish Community of Kobe (Ashkenazim), Committee for Assistance to Refugees, Stay Permits Department, addressed to Mr. Praszkier Hersz. It informs him that his stay permit and passport have been handed to the police authorities for extension, and asks him to call by 26 August 1941. This reflects the situation of a Jewish refugee who had reached Kobe, Japan, likely via the Sugihara/Zwartendijk transit visa escape route.
A letter from the Jewish Community of Kobe (Ashkenazim), Committee for Assistance to Refugees, Stay Permits Department, addressed to Mr. Hersz Praszkier on 19 August 1941. It informed him that his stay permit and passport had been handed to the local police authorities for an extension, and asked him to call by 26 August 1941. This reflects the situation of a Jewish refugee who reached Kobe, Japan, consistent with the Sugihara/Zwartendijk transit visa escape route.
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… 255; 30; Wloclawek; Farmer; cousin Joseph Praszkier 520 8 Ave New York, Irving Prashkier 25 Parade Place Brooklyn
