Kramer Lejb received transit visa no. 1368 at the Japanese consulate in Kaunas on 7 August 1940. The register records rabbinical student - lubavitsch yeshiva, aged 22.
What the register records
Nationality as recorded
Polnisch
Age in 1940
22
Occupation
Rabbinical Student - Lubavitsch Yeshiva
The journey
Reached Japan; reached Shanghai; 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… 160, 23, Chelm, Polish; friend Rabbi Shneyerson 770 Eastern Park Way Brooklyn NY
Rabbi Michoel Seligson, "Our Heros: Reb Yosef M. M. Tenenbaum (1917-1993)" — full biography provided by owner (Chabad community publication)