Dobekirer Jechil received transit visa no. 1988 at the Japanese consulate in Kaunas on 20 August 1940. The register records clerk, aged 34.
What the register records
Nationality as recorded
Polish
Age in 1940
34
Occupation
Clerk
Family, per the Kitade-Bluman list
husband of #2008, daughter Malka (5)
The journey
Reached Japan; reached Shanghai; registered in Kobe for USA.
Travelled with, and never given a number
Malka — daughter, aged 5
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.
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… No.38, 1906 Rowne; sister L.Levin Haifa Hadar Hacarmel Bilu 9
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… #114, age 35, b. Rowne, clerk, from Vilno
hunt/jdc_shanghai: JDC Shanghai migration file: DOBEKIRER Jechil JDC Archives, New York collection AR3344, 'Complete Shanghai Migration Files' (NY_AR3344_00014), page 19: DOBEKIRER Jechil, file no. 8192. Match: register No.1988 'Dobekirer Jechil', and the register independently records this person as reaching Shanghai. Both name parts agree. NOTE: the index carri