Loew Ernst received transit visa no. 1719 at the Japanese consulate in Kaunas on 14 August 1940. Aged 36 in 1940.
What the register records
Nationality as recorded
German
Age in 1940
36
The journey
Reached Japan; reached Shanghai; 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… 182, 24, Fulda, Rabbi, German; parents Levi Fort Washington 400 Ave New York
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S.S. Seia Maru manifest — sailed Yokohama 2 November 1940, arrived Los Angeles (San Pedro) 17 November 1940: line 1, Loew Ernst Richard, engineer, born Munich, German, last permanent residence Kaunas, Lithuania; detained aboard as an in-…