Wisniewski Lejb received transit visa no. 1079 at the Japanese consulate in Kaunas on 5 August 1940. The register records rabbinical student - mir yeshiva, aged 23.
What the register records
Nationality as recorded
Polnisch
Age in 1940
23
Occupation
Rabbinical Student - Mir Yeshiva
The journey
Reached Japan; reached Shanghai; registered in Kobe for 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… #360, 25, Gorki, yeshiva, Polish; J.Greenberg R 7 D 1 Box 468 Belmar New Jersey