Herz Jakob received transit visa no. 1895 at the Japanese consulate in Kaunas on 17 August 1940. The register records journalist, aged 46.
What the register records
Nationality as recorded
Polnisch
Age in 1940
46
Occupation
Journalist
Family, per the Kitade-Bluman list
wife Ryfka (40), children (Zysla (14), Leo (8))
The journey
Reached Japan; reached Shanghai; registered in Kobe for USA.
Travelled with, and never given a number
Ryfka — wife, aged 40
Zysla — child, aged 14
Leo — 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.