Tchornicki Wolf received transit visa no. 1237 at the Japanese consulate in Kaunas on 6 August 1940. The register records student, aged 19.
What the register records
Nationality as recorded
Polnisch
Age in 1940
19
Occupation
Student
The journey
Reached Japan; reached Shanghai; aided by the Polish ambassador Tadeusz Romer; registered in Kobe for Mexico.
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… 274, 1921, Polish; brother and sister Jose and Mary Tjornicki Tribuna Izraelia Mexico Apartato postale 351
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… #681, age 20, b. Ostrina, student, arr. 24.2, from Vilno