Najman Jankiel received transit visa no. 1740 at the Japanese consulate in Kaunas on 14 August 1940. The register records rabbi - mir yeshiva, aged 30.
What the register records
Nationality as recorded
Polnisch
Age in 1940
30
Occupation
Rabbi - Mir Yeshiva
Family, per the Kitade-Bluman list
wife Chaja (23), daughter Fejga (0)
The journey
Reached Japan; reached Shanghai; registered in Kobe for USA.
Travelled with, and never given a number
Chaja — wife, aged 23
Fejga — daughter, aged 0
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.
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… 216, 32, Rabbi, Polish; father in law Rabbi P.Aronowicz 76 A Sivevright Ave Johannesburg South Afr.; cousin Rabbi S.Wasserman 161 Clinton Str New York