Epelbaum Leonid received transit visa no. 1286 at the Japanese consulate in Kaunas on 6 August 1940. The register records merchant, aged 44.
What the register records
Nationality as recorded
Polnisch
Age in 1940
44
Occupation
Merchant
The journey
Reached Japan; aided by the Polish ambassador Tadeusz Romer; registered in Kobe for Chile.
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… No.50, 1896 Lubieszow; cousins Jacob Epelbaum Cleveland Ohio, Ing.Shoshkes Federation of Polish Jews New York
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… #142, age 45, b. Lubieszow, merchant, arr 25.2