Lanchart Leo received transit visa no. 1858 at the Japanese consulate in Kaunas on 17 August 1940. The register records scholar, aged 16.
What the register records
Nationality as recorded
Lithuanien
Age in 1940
16
Occupation
Scholar
Family, per the Kitade-Bluman list
brother of #1857
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… 1934 Altona; Polish
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… #403, 17, b. Altona, Scholar, arr 13.2, from Alytus