Gringlas Mendel received transit visa no. 1780 at the Japanese consulate in Kaunas on 15 August 1940. The register records rabbinical student - lubavitsch yeshiva, aged 23.
What the register records
Nationality as recorded
Polnisch
Age in 1940
23
Occupation
Rabbinical Student - Lubavitsch Yeshiva
The journey
Reached Japan; reached Shanghai; registered in Kobe for Canada.
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… No 259; age 24; born Lodz; arr 14.2; from Vilno