Zabare Jankiel received transit visa no. 1137 at the Japanese consulate in Kaunas on 5 August 1940. The register records rabbinical student - mir yeshiva, aged 17.
What the register records
Nationality as recorded
Polnisch
Age in 1940
17
Occupation
Rabbinical Student - Mir Yeshiva
The journey
Reached Japan; reached Shanghai; aided by the Polish ambassador Tadeusz Romer; 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… #366, 19, Ostrog, yeshiva, Polish; uncle Morris Berman 13 Vannen Ave Malden Mass