Oler Leja received transit visa no. 1973 at the Japanese consulate in Kaunas on 19 August 1940. The register records dressmaker, aged 41.
What the register records
Nationality as recorded
Polish
Age in 1940
41
Occupation
Dressmaker
Family, per the Kitade-Bluman list
daughters (Hinda (12), Chana (12))
The journey
Reached Japan; 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… 204, 1898 Grojec
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… 43, Grojec, Tailor, 25.2
hunt/familysearch: US arrival manifest: Laja Oler, Seattle, 1941 "Seattle Passenger Lists", FamilySearch, entry for Laja Oler, 1941. Ship: Heian Maru. Matched from the Heian Maru's Polish-born passenger list (198 people, of whom 57 matched the register). Register No.1973 'Oler Laja' records age 41; the manifest gives born 1899, arriving 1941.