Adolf Herman Schatz received transit visa no. 178 at the Japanese consulate in Kaunas on 29 July 1940. The register records clerk, aged 56.
What the register records
Nationality as recorded
Polnisch
Age in 1940
56
Occupation
Clerk
The journey
Reached Japan; aided by the Polish ambassador Tadeusz Romer; registered in Kobe for Palestine.
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; wife-Antonina Schetz c/o Dr.Lengh Merci Hospital Desmoines Jawa; Cousin-N.Spear 14 East 74 Av NYC
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… no.605, age 56, b. Warsaw, Clerk, arr 13.2 from Vilno