Berkman Lejb received transit visa no. 1693 at the Japanese consulate in Kaunas on 13 August 1940. The register records manager, aged 39.
What the register records
Nationality as recorded
Polnisch
Age in 1940
39
Occupation
Manager
The journey
Reached Japan; registered in Kobe for USA.
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.13, 1901 Warszawa; friend Heyman Schiff 101 Clinton Str New York
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… #31, 40, b. Warsaw, Clerk, arr 25.2, from Vilno