Surawicz Mordka received transit visa no. 1312 at the Japanese consulate in Kaunas on 6 August 1940. The register records manufacturer, aged 46.
What the register records
Nationality as recorded
Polnisch
Age in 1940
46
Occupation
Manufacturer
Family, per the Kitade-Bluman list
wife Rejzla (41), son Liowa (21)
The journey
Reached Japan; reached Shanghai; registered in Kobe for Australia.
Travelled with, and never given a number
Rejzla — wife, aged 41
Liowa — son, aged 21
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.
Where this comes from
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… no.620, age 47, b. Sokoly, manufact., arr 13.2 from Kovno