Oskar Wajsbrem received transit visa no. 226 at the Japanese consulate in Kaunas on 30 July 1940. The register records engineer, aged 32.
What the register records
Nationality as recorded
Polnisch
Age in 1940
32
Occupation
Engineer
Family, per the Kitade-Bluman list
wife Elka (19)
The journey
Reached Japan; aided by the Polish ambassador Tadeusz Romer; registered in Kobe for Australia.
Travelled with, and never given a number
Elka — wife, aged 19
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… #350, 33, Warsaw, Engin., Polish; cousin Ofenberger 50 Pine str New York