Fainstein Jechiel received transit visa no. 1453 at the Japanese consulate in Kaunas on 7 August 1940. The register records yeshiva, aged 30.
What the register records
Nationality as recorded
Polnisch
Age in 1940
30
Occupation
Yeshiva
The journey
Reached Japan; aided by the Polish ambassador Tadeusz Romer; registered in Kobe for USA.
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… No 59; 1910 Malecz; Polish; uncle M.Fajnsztajn, 138 Henry Str. New York
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… #150, age 31, b. Malecz, yeshiva, arr 14.2, from Kovno