Pranas Kontautas received transit visa no. 2135 at the Japanese consulate in Kaunas on 23 August 1940. The register records house painter, aged 37.
What the register records
Nationality as recorded
Lithuanien/
Age in 1940
37
Occupation
House Painter
The journey
Reached Japan; registered in Kobe for USA.
What is known
Pranas Kontautas, a 37-year-old from Lithuania, sailed on the S.S. President Cleveland from Kobe, Japan on 10 October 1940, with destination United States listed on the passenger manifest.
Where this comes from
Jaskoll family collection: SS President Cleveland manifest, Kobe 10 Oct 1940 — line 1: Jaskolka Szaps, 19, apprentice baker, b. Dlugosiodlo; admitted 25 Oct 1940