Hilel Gostynski received transit visa no. 144 at the Japanese consulate in Kaunas on 29 July 1940. The register records journalist, aged 32.
What the register records
Nationality as recorded
Polnisch
Age in 1940
32
Occupation
Journalist
Family, per the Kitade-Bluman list
husband of #143, child Elisabeth (4)
The journey
Reached Japan; registered in Kobe for Australia.
Travelled with, and never given a number
Elisabeth — child, aged 4
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 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… Polish; J.Frankenstein, Capitan Violetto 3109 Montevideo; Abram Wroblewski, Praca Guilhevma Rudge 5, Sao Paulo; Samuel B.Horovitz, 105 Central Oke, Chicago; Adela Wroblewska, De Graca 482, Sao Paulo
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 243; age 33; born Tomaszow; Journal.; arr 3.2; from Vilno