Warszawski Icek received transit visa no. 1564 at the Japanese consulate in Kaunas on 9 August 1940. The register records engineer, aged 32.
What the register records
Nationality as recorded
Polnisch
Age in 1940
32
Occupation
Engineer
Family, per the Kitade-Bluman list
wife Szejndla (28)
The journey
Reached Japan; aided by the Polish ambassador Tadeusz Romer; registered in Kobe for Chile.
Travelled with, and never given a number
Szejndla — wife, aged 28
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… 288, 1911 Jadow, Polish; sisters Bialostocka Calsada Mexico-Tacuba 698, Zilberg Varela 1139/41 Buenos Aires
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.734, age 30, Jadow, Tailor, arr 25.2 Kovno