Karol Berliner received transit visa no. 140 at the Japanese consulate in Kaunas on 29 July 1940. The register records engineer, aged 36.
What the register records
Nationality as recorded
Polnisch
Age in 1940
36
Occupation
Engineer
Family, per the Kitade-Bluman list
wife Hanna (30)
The journey
Reached Japan; aided by the Polish ambassador Tadeusz Romer; registered in Kobe for Cuba.
Travelled with, and never given a number
Hanna — wife, aged 30
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… #8, 36, born Lodz, engineer, arr 25.1, from Kaunas