Jablonowski Josef received transit visa no. 1770 at the Japanese consulate in Kaunas on 14 August 1940. The register records shoemaker, aged 35.
What the register records
Nationality as recorded
Polnisch
Age in 1940
35
Occupation
Shoemaker
The journey
Reached Japan; 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 120; 1905 Kielce; Polish; uncle Arkin, 95 Lafayette Ave. Boston USA
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… 312, 36, b. Kielce, Shoemaker, arr. 14.2, from Wilno