Odes Lejwik received transit visa no. 1805 at the Japanese consulate in Kaunas on 16 August 1940. The register records editor, aged 53.
What the register records
Nationality as recorded
Polnisch
Age in 1940
53
Occupation
Editor
Family, per the Kitade-Bluman list
daughter Hilda (16)
The journey
Reached Japan.
Travelled with, and never given a number
Hilda — daughter, aged 16
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.
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.126, age 53, b. Ploszczenice, Editor, arr. 24.1.
hunt/familysearch: US arrival manifest: Letwik Odes, Seattle, 1941 "Seattle Passenger Lists", FamilySearch, entry for Letwik Odes, 1941. Ship: Hikawa Maru. Matched from the Hikawa Maru's Polish-born passenger list (162 people, 35 matched). Register No.1805 'Odes Lejwik' records age 53; the manifest gives born 1889, arriving 1941.