Kusznir Rubin received transit visa no. 1977 at the Japanese consulate in Kaunas on 19 August 1940. The register records glove maker, aged 46.
What the register records
Nationality as recorded
Polish
Age in 1940
46
Occupation
Glove Maker
Family, per the Kitade-Bluman list
wife Mirla (48); sons (Icchok Jakub (18), Israel (16))
The journey
Reached Japan; reached Shanghai.
Travelled with, and never given a number
Mirla — wife, aged 48
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.
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… 161, 1894; brother in law Felix Feigenblatt Bronx NY, uncle Max Fraenkel Ozone Park Long Island
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… #399, 47, Glove maker, arr 24.2, from Vilno