Josef Wajnberg received transit visa no. 1826 at the Japanese consulate in Kaunas on 16 August 1940. The register records rabbinical student, lubavitsch, aged 23.
What the register records
Nationality as recorded
Lithuanien
Age in 1940
23
Occupation
Rabbinical Student, Lubavitsch
The journey
Reached Japan; reached Shanghai; aided by the Polish ambassador Tadeusz Romer; registered in Kobe for Palestine.
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… #692, age 24, b. Janow Lub., yeshiva, arr. 13.2