Perec Jogiel received transit visa no. 1690 at the Japanese consulate in Kaunas on 13 August 1940. The register records rabbi - slonimer yeshiva, aged 46.
What the register records
Nationality as recorded
Polnisch
Age in 1940
46
Occupation
Rabbi - Slonimer Yeshiva
The journey
Reached Japan; reached Shanghai; 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… No.120, 1894 Piaski; parents Rabbi Sh.Jogiel Hashoftim 26 Tel Aviv, friends A.Bender 168 Hooper str Brooklyn NY
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… 227, 47, b. Piaski, Rabbi, from Vilno