Rubinsztejn Gilel received transit visa no. 1907 at the Japanese consulate in Kaunas on 19 August 1940. The register records merchant, aged 40.
What the register records
Nationality as recorded
Polnish
Age in 1940
40
Occupation
Merchant
The journey
Reached Japan; reached Shanghai; aided by the Polish ambassador Tadeusz Romer; 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… 1900; sister Rochla Shapiro 4818 Skillman Ave Long Island City 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.585, age 41, b. Sidra, merchant, arr 13.2 from Kovno