Leitner Edward received transit visa no. 1658 at the Japanese consulate in Kaunas on 13 August 1940. The register records rabbinical student - mir yeshiva, aged 23.
What the register records
Nationality as recorded
checoslov.
Age in 1940
23
Occupation
Rabbinical Student - Mir Yeshiva
Family, per the Kitade-Bluman list
brother of #1657
The journey
Reached Japan; reached Shanghai; registered in Kobe for USA.
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… #10, 24, born Berlin, from Vilno