Wiecha Chaim received transit visa no. 1361 at the Japanese consulate in Kaunas on 7 August 1940. Aged 23 in 1940.
What the register records
Nationality as recorded
Polnisch
Age in 1940
23
The journey
Reached Japan; aided by the Polish ambassador Tadeusz Romer; registered in Kobe for Canada.
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… #355, 24, Wysokie, Polish; brother M.Wiecha Hadar Hacarmel Haifa Rchow Zwulun 15 Bejt Frydman