Erlich Zofja received transit visa no. 1727 at the Japanese consulate in Kaunas on 14 August 1940. The register records journalist, aged 55.
What the register records
Nationality as recorded
Polnisch
Age in 1940
55
Occupation
Journalist
Family, per the Kitade-Bluman list
mother of #1684
The journey
Reached Japan; 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… 1885 Warszawa; Polish
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… #143, age 56, b. Warsaw, journalist, arr 13.2, from Kovno