Janina Goldman received transit visa no. 182 at the Japanese consulate in Kaunas on 29 July 1940. The register records clerk, aged 38.
What the register records
Nationality as recorded
Polnisch
Age in 1940
38
Occupation
Clerk
The journey
Reached Japan.
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… Entry 84 of the Kobe community's list of refugees and their relatives abroad: born 1903 at Krakow, Polish; relatives abroad: a cousin, Herbert Goldman, Cleveland; an uncle, Henry Goldman, 10 Maybush Road, Hornchurch, Essex, London.
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… Entry 226 of the Kobe Jewish Community's refugee register: aged 38, born at Krakow, a clerk, who arrived in Japan on 13 February 1941.