Kmicik Bronislaw received transit visa no. 1604 at the Japanese consulate in Kaunas on 10 August 1940. The register records driver, aged 41.
What the register records
Nationality as recorded
Polnisch
Age in 1940
41
Occupation
Driver
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… 141, 41, Lodz, driver, Polish; friend Marcela Sheluk 302 Prince Rouppert, J.Albin 3565 Dominion Str Bourmley New Westminster BC Canada