Mlotek Abram received transit visa no. 1937 at the Japanese consulate in Kaunas on 19 August 1940. The register records tricot, aged 22.
What the register records
Nationality as recorded
Polish
Age in 1940
22
Occupation
Tricot
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… 210, 23, Wroszowice, tricot; cousin M.Kirstenberg 651 Nulla Nomlo Buenos Aires, L.Chapman 345 Drummon str Carlton Melbourne
Mark Halpern correspondence (9 Aug 2026): Netherlands Legation certificate, Tokyo, 18 March 1941 — Minister J.C. Pabst certifies that 74 named persons of Polish nationality "do not need a Netherlands visa in order to proceed to the Nethe… Amakusa Maru 74 — Netherlands Legation certificate (Tokyo, 18 Mar 1941), line 32. Cross-referenced by Mark Halpern, researcher (Aug 2026); archive pass concurs. register row carries Mlotek Abram — K/M one stroke apart; which document errs is unresolved.
The list of seventy-four — Netherlands Legation, Tokyo, 18 March 1941. On the Legation's letterhead (Gezantschap der Nederlanden), certifying 'that the undermentioned persons all of Polish nationality do not need a Netherlands visa in or… Named at position 32 of seventy-four on the Netherlands Legation's certificate of 18 March 1941 — the list of the people who reached Tsuruga on Sugihara's transit visas without a Curaçao endorsement, were refused permission to land, and whose ship was turned back towards Vladivostok. The Legation typed the name as "Mlotek Abram". A pencilled note beside it gives this register number, which is how the two records are joined.