Fiszbein Szaloja received transit visa no. 1496 at the Japanese consulate in Kaunas on 7 August 1940. The register records monteur, aged 29.
What the register records
Nationality as recorded
Polnisch
Age in 1940
29
Occupation
Monteur
Family, per the Kitade-Bluman list
brother of #1504
The journey
Reached Japan; reached Shanghai; aided by the Polish ambassador Tadeusz Romer; registered in Kobe for Canada.
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… 137/161, 27, Brzesc, Monteur, arr 2.2.41, from Vilno