Pejsach Kahan received transit visa no. 1177 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… 124, 1915 Kleck, Polish; uncle Greenberg Bronx, uncle Cohen Bronx
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… 231, 26, b. Kleck, yeshiva, arr. 25.2, from Kovno