Ofman Paulina received transit visa no. 1876 at the Japanese consulate in Kaunas on 17 August 1940. The register records infirmier, aged 32.
What the register records
Nationality as recorded
Polnisch
Age in 1940
32
Occupation
Infirmier
Family, per the Kitade-Bluman list
wife of #1949, child Wolf (8)
The journey
Reached Japan; aided by the Polish ambassador Tadeusz Romer; registered in Kobe for USA.
Travelled with, and never given a number
Wolf — child, aged 8
The register recorded visa holders. It did not reliably record the wives and children who travelled on somebody else’s visa, so these people have no entry of their own and cannot be searched for. Where the archive has recovered a name, it is here.
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… 202, 1908 Grodno; uncle Arkin Boston Forward
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… 33, Grodno, Infirmerier, 24.2