Lewinsztein Chaskiel received transit visa no. 1165 at the Japanese consulate in Kaunas on 5 August 1940. The register records rabbi - mir yeshiva, aged 54.
What the register records
Nationality as recorded
German
Age in 1940
54
Occupation
Rabbi - Mir Yeshiva
Family, per the Kitade-Bluman list
husband of #1192
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… 166, 85 Warsaw, Polish
The JEWCOM register — the refugee register kept by the Refugee Committee of the Jewish Community of Kobe (Ashkenazim) at No. 6 Yamamoto-dori, 1-chome, whose cable address was 'JEWCOM Kobe'. Eighty-four pages on the committee's own printe… #417, 56, b. Warsaw, Rabbi, from Kovno