Samuel Semenski received transit visa no. 1619 at the Japanese consulate in Kaunas on 13 August 1940. The register records locksmith, aged 42.
What the register records
Nationality as recorded
Polnisch
Age in 1940
42
Occupation
Locksmith
Family, per the Kitade-Bluman list
wife Helena (35)
The journey
Reached Japan; reached Shanghai; registered in Kobe for Israel.
Travelled with, and never given a number
Helena — wife, aged 35
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… 292; 43; Szczuczyn; locksmith; brothers B&E Semenski Richon Lzijon Palestine, uncle Feinberg 75 Lennox Road Brooklyn NY