Dawid Szyja Mordka Mendzylewski received transit visa no. 176 at the Japanese consulate in Kaunas on 29 July 1940. The register records tailor, aged 37.
What the register records
Nationality as recorded
Polnisch
Age in 1940
37
Occupation
Tailor
The journey
Reached Japan; aided by the Polish ambassador Tadeusz Romer; registered in Kobe for Burma.
Where this comes from
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… born Radzymin