Redler Artur received transit visa no. 1843 at the Japanese consulate in Kaunas on 16 August 1940. The register records economist, aged 35.
What the register records
Nationality as recorded
Lithuanien
Age in 1940
35
Occupation
Economist
The journey
Reached Japan; reached Shanghai; registered in Kobe for Australia? or 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… 1905 Warsaw; cousin Leon Radler NY City; Bela Shufman Brooklyn NY
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.556, age 36, b. Warsaw, Economist, from Kovno