Langsam Elias received transit visa no. 1474 at the Japanese consulate in Kaunas on 7 August 1940. The register records tailor, aged 26.
What the register records
Nationality as recorded
Polnisch
Age in 1940
26
Occupation
Tailor
The journey
Reached Japan; aided by the Polish ambassador Tadeusz Romer; registered in Kobe for Palestine.
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… 75; 26; Prag; Tailor; Polish; sister B.Feldman 644 Carlos Peligrini Buenos Aires