Gelpern Leja received transit visa no. 1576 at the Japanese consulate in Kaunas on 9 August 1940. Aged 30 in 1940.
What the register records
Nationality as recorded
Lithuanien
Age in 1940
30
The journey
Reached Japan.
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.45, age 50, b. Vilno, arr 14.1.