Bejn Lejb Szmul received transit visa no. 1241 at the Japanese consulate in Kaunas on 6 August 1940. The register records rabbi - lublin yeshiva, aged 51.
What the register records
Nationality as recorded
Polnisch
Age in 1940
51
Occupation
Rabbi - Lublin Yeshiva
Family, per the Kitade-Bluman list
wife Estera (49), children (Luzer (18), Ruchla (10), Dworja (16))
The journey
Reached Japan; aided by the Polish ambassador Tadeusz Romer; registered in Kobe for Palestine.
Travelled with, and never given a number
Estera — wife, aged 49
Luzer — child, aged 18
Ruchla — child, aged 10
Dworja — child, aged 16
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.