Blond Szejna received transit visa no. 1728 at the Japanese consulate in Kaunas on 14 August 1940. The register records journalist, aged 53.
What the register records
Nationality as recorded
Polnisch
Age in 1940
53
Occupation
Journalist
The journey
Reached Japan; aided by the Polish ambassador Tadeusz Romer; 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 21; 1887 Wilno; Polish; uncle L.Kopel 63 East 118 str.N.Y.; cous.J.Kramer 144 6 str. Pittsburg PA
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… #55, 54, b. Vilno, Journalist, arr 13.2, from Vilno