Kaliski Jakob received transit visa no. 2009 at the Japanese consulate in Kaunas on 20 August 1940. The register records lawyer, aged 46.
What the register records
Nationality as recorded
Polish
Age in 1940
46
Occupation
Lawyer
Family, per the Kitade-Bluman list
wife Ludwika (42), children (Taduesz (16) ,Stefan (11))
The journey
Reached Japan; registered in Kobe for Canada.
Travelled with, and never given a number
Ludwika — wife, aged 42
Taduesz — child, aged 16
Stefan — child, aged 11
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
hunt/familysearch: US arrival manifest: Jakub Kaliski, Seattle, 1941 "Seattle Passenger Lists", FamilySearch, entry for Jakub Kaliski, 1941. Ship: Heian Maru. Matched from the Heian Maru's Polish-born passenger list (198 people, of whom 57 matched the register). Register No.2009 'Kaliski Jakob' records age 46; the manifest gives born 1894, arriving 1941. Confi