Isak Levin received transit visa no. 17 at the Japanese consulate in Kaunas on 26 July 1940. The register records rabbi, aged 34.
What the register records
Nationality as recorded
Polnisch
Age in 1940
34
Occupation
Rabbi
Family, per the Kitade-Bluman list
son Natan (4), husband of #13
The journey
Reached Japan; aided by the Polish ambassador Tadeusz Romer; registered in Kobe for USA.
Travelled with, and never given a number
Natan — child, aged 5
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.
What is known
Izaak Levin, born 1906 in Vitebsk and residing in Vilnius, obtained a Lithuanian safe-conduct (Leidimas/Sauf-Conduit) travel document together with his wife Perla (born 1911) and son Natan (born 1936). The document bears a Japanese transit visa (Sugihara-type) as well as a Curacao/Dutch endorsement and British Consulate stamps, permitting travel through Vladivostok and Japan toward the Dutch colonies of Curacao and Surinam and onward to America. Multiple official stamps from the Vilnius city authorities and the Japanese consulate appear on the pages.
This is a Lithuanian Leidimas / Sauf-Conduit (safe-conduct in lieu of passport for a foreigner) issued to Isaak Levin, born 1906 in Vilkija, residing in Vilnius. It notes he is accompanied by his wife Perla (born 1911) and son Natan (born 1936). The document was valid for one journey and issued in July 1940.
This is a Lithuanian 'Leidimas / Sauf-conduit' (safe-conduct in lieu of passport) issued to Izaak Zorn, born 1906 in Vidzieca, of Mosaic (Jewish) faith. The document accompanies his wife Perla and their son Natum. It was issued in Vilnius (Vilna) and dated July 14, 1940.
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… No.100, age 30, b. Wieliczka, Rabbi, arr. 2.1. from Vilno
