Buzel Owsiej received transit visa no. 1156 at the Japanese consulate in Kaunas on 5 August 1940. The register records rabbinical student - mir yeshiva, aged 26.
What the register records
Nationality as recorded
Polnisch
Age in 1940
26
Occupation
Rabbinical Student - Mir Yeshiva
Family, per the Kitade-Bluman list
wife Fania (18)
The journey
Reached Japan; reached Shanghai; registered in Kobe for USA.
Travelled with, and never given a number
Fania — wife, aged 18
The register recorded visa holders. It did not reliably record the wives and children who travelled on somebody else’s visa, so these people have no entry of their own and cannot be searched for. Where the archive has recovered a name, it is here.
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… 38, 28, Zdzieciol, yeshiva