Brandys Lejb received transit visa no. 1938 at the Japanese consulate in Kaunas on 19 August 1940. The register records lawyer, aged 41.
What the register records
Nationality as recorded
Polish
Age in 1940
41
Occupation
Lawyer
The journey
Reached Japan; aided by the Polish ambassador Tadeusz Romer; registered in Kobe for USA.
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… 34, 41, Warsaw, Lawyer; brother L.Brandys and father Jakob Dawid Brandys Kfar Giladi 44 Tel Aviv Palestine