Adolf Weinstein received transit visa no. 146 at the Japanese consulate in Kaunas on 29 July 1940. The register records chemist, aged 70.
What the register records
Nationality as recorded
Polnisch
Age in 1940
70
Occupation
Chemist
Family, per the Kitade-Bluman list
wife Olga (47)
The journey
Reached Japan; aided by the Polish ambassador Tadeusz Romer; registered in Kobe for Canada.
Travelled with, and never given a number
Olga — wife, aged 47
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… No.190, age 71, b. Luck
hunt/familysearch: US arrival manifest: Adolf Weinstein, Seattle, 1941 "Seattle Passenger Lists", FamilySearch, entry for Adolf Weinstein, 1941. Ship: Heian Maru. Matched from the Heian Maru's Polish-born passenger list (198 people, of whom 57 matched the register). Register No.146 'Adolf einstein' records age 70; the manifest gives born 1870, arriving 1941. Con