Gryngaus Markiel received transit visa no. 1517 at the Japanese consulate in Kaunas on 7 August 1940. The register records rabbinical student - kamiencier yeshiva, aged 34.
What the register records
Nationality as recorded
Polnisch
Age in 1940
34
Occupation
Rabbinical Student - Kamiencier Yeshiva
The journey
Reached Japan; reached Shanghai; 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… No 258; age 35; born Lebiedzieno; Yeshiva; from Kovno