Szewczyk Kiwa received transit visa no. 1083 at the Japanese consulate in Kaunas on 5 August 1940. The register records rabbinical student - mir yeshiva, aged 25.
What the register records
Nationality as recorded
Polnisch
Age in 1940
25
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… 323; 27; Slonim; friens B.Lubecky 500 Paris Ave S.E. G.R., Mr J.August 2990 Elmhurst Ave Detroit Mich