Szporn Jakob received transit visa no. 2132 at the Japanese consulate in Kaunas on 22 August 1940. The register records merchant, aged 40.
What the register records
Nationality as recorded
Polisch
Age in 1940
40
Occupation
Merchant
Family, per the Kitade-Bluman list
son of #2120, wife Maryla (27)
The journey
Reached Japan; registered in Kobe for Brazil.
Travelled with, and never given a number
Maryla — wife, aged 27
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.174, age 40, b. Warsaw, Merchant, arr. 2.1., left for Brazil 21.1.