Erlich Wiktor received transit visa no. 1684 at the Japanese consulate in Kaunas on 13 August 1940. The register records journalist, aged 25.
What the register records
Nationality as recorded
Polnisch
Age in 1940
25
Occupation
Journalist
Family, per the Kitade-Bluman list
wife Iza (20), son of #1727
The journey
Reached Japan; registered in Kobe for Canada.
Travelled with, and never given a number
Iza — wife, aged 20
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… 1914 Leningrad; Polish; aunt M.Geshgorn Villensby av.17 Hollywood
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… #144, age 27, b. Petrograd, student