Rassin Mojsze received transit visa no. 1996 at the Japanese consulate in Kaunas on 20 August 1940. The register records manufacturer, aged 36.
What the register records
Nationality as recorded
Polish
Age in 1940
36
Occupation
Manufacturer
Family, per the Kitade-Bluman list
wife Chana (28)
The journey
Reached Japan; aided by the Polish ambassador Tadeusz Romer; registered in Kobe for USA.
Travelled with, and never given a number
Chana — wife, aged 28
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 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… No.139, age 37, b. Mozyr, Manufacturer, arr. 24.1.