Mendel Ehrlich received transit visa no. 227 at the Japanese consulate in Kaunas on 30 July 1940. The register records agronomist, aged 45.
What the register records
Nationality as recorded
Polnisch
Age in 1940
45
Occupation
Agronomist
The journey
Reached Japan; aided by the Polish ambassador Tadeusz Romer; registered in Kobe for Palestine.
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… 1895 Rudnik; Polish; Brother I.Erlich Balfour 40 Tel Aviv; A.Erlich 20 Eagle Lodge Goldersschreen road London NW 11
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… #133, age 46, b. Rudnik, agronom, arr 13.2, from Vilno