Moszek Diner received transit visa no. 1819 at the Japanese consulate in Kaunas on 16 August 1940. The register records shoemaker, aged 54.
What the register records
Nationality as recorded
Lithuanien
Age in 1940
54
Occupation
Shoemaker
The journey
Reached Japan; reached Shanghai; 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.43, 1885 Zawichost; sister Fargetsztejn Box 648 Memphis Tenn, son Jose Diner Margil 30 Altes 10 Mexico DF
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… #129, age 56, b. Zawichost, shoemaker, arr 24.2