Nutkiewicz Berek received transit visa no. 1505 at the Japanese consulate in Kaunas on 7 August 1940. The register records merchant, aged 31.
What the register records
Nationality as recorded
Polnisch
Age in 1940
31
Occupation
Merchant
The journey
Reached Japan; aided by the Polish ambassador Tadeusz Romer; registered in Kobe for Canada.
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… 232, 31, Ostrow Maz., Polish; cousin Sam Fein 889 Stebbins Av Bronx NY; S.Hofman 2305 Righton Detroit Mich.