Baruch Klemens received transit visa no. 1550 at the Japanese consulate in Kaunas on 8 August 1940. The register records merchant, aged 45.
What the register records
Nationality as recorded
Polnisch
Age in 1940
45
Occupation
Merchant
Family, per the Kitade-Bluman list
wife Marysia (34), child (Piotr (4))
The journey
Reached Japan; aided by the Polish ambassador Tadeusz Romer; registered in Kobe for New Zealand.
Travelled with, and never given a number
Marysia — wife, aged 34
Piotr — child, aged 4
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 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… 6; 47; b. Dzialoszyn; merch.; brother Zk.Baruch Pylon str 2 Tel Aviv, cousin Blume Landau Rio de Janeiro Hotel Riviera
"List of persons arriving on route to New Zealand" — the arrival roster for the sailing from Japan, September 1941: 33 typed names, from Dr George Bluman’s own marked-up copy (sent 18 Aug 2026). Bluman’s red ticks mark the passengers he… Named on the list of persons arriving on route to New Zealand, sailing from Japan in 1941. His family note reads 'wife Marysia (34), child (Piotr (4))'. Both are named on this arrival list in their own right.