Miller Rusel received transit visa no. 1691 at the Japanese consulate in Kaunas on 13 August 1940. The register records clerk, aged 30.
What the register records
Nationality as recorded
Polnisch
Age in 1940
30
Occupation
Clerk
Family, per the Kitade-Bluman list
husband of #1716
The journey
Reached Japan.
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… The Kobe Jewish Community's refugee register: aged 31, born at Czestochowa, a clerk.
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… The Kobe community's list of refugees and their relatives abroad has Russel Miller and his wife; he was born in 1910, and had an uncle in New York. Sugihara's ledger lost the first letter of his given name; the list spells it Russel.