Mlotek Josek received transit visa no. 1860 at the Japanese consulate in Kaunas on 17 August 1940. The register records journalist, aged 21.
What the register records
Nationality as recorded
Lithuanien
Age in 1940
21
Occupation
Journalist
Family, per the Kitade-Bluman list
brother-in-law of #1828
The journey
Reached Japan; reached Shanghai; registered in Kobe for Canada.
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… 178; 1918 Proszowice; uncle Alex Salsman, Brooklyn
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… 23, Proszowice, Journal., 14.2
Rabbi Avram Mlotek (Facebook): JBS studio encounter with Chihiro Sugihara — grandson of the consul meets grandson of Yosl Mlotek (No.1860); Yom HaShoah broadcast recorded elsewhere as Yosl Mlotek, a credible spelling of this line's Milotek Josek. Matched on the name alone — no date or document confirms it is the same person