Artur Loebl received transit visa no. 2065 at the Japanese consulate in Kaunas on 21 August 1940. The register records manufacturer, aged 49.
What the register records
Nationality as recorded
checoslov.
Age in 1940
49
Occupation
Manufacturer
Family, per the Kitade-Bluman list
wife Marianne (26)
The journey
Reached Japan; reached Shanghai; registered in Kobe for Ecuador and then USA.
Travelled with, and never given a number
Marianne — wife, aged 26
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… 198, 50, Mastow, manuf., Tchechosl.