Rymer Mojzesz received transit visa no. 2089 at the Japanese consulate in Kaunas on 21 August 1940. The register records bookkeeper, aged 30.
What the register records
Nationality as recorded
Polish
Age in 1940
30
Occupation
Bookkeeper
Family, per the Kitade-Bluman list
wife Mirjam (21)
The journey
Reached Japan; aided by the Polish ambassador Tadeusz Romer; registered in Kobe for USA.
Travelled with, and never given a number
Mirjam — wife, aged 21
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… #23, 31, b. Warsaw, Bookkeeper, arr 24.12.