Bencion Horowitsch received transit visa no. 266 at the Japanese consulate in Kaunas on 30 July 1940. The register records agronomist, aged 37.
What the register records
Nationality as recorded
Polnisch
Age in 1940
37
Occupation
Agronomist
The journey
Reached Japan.
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… No.111, 1903 Krakow; brother Eliezer Horowitz Josef 59 Haifa, uncle Jacob Horovitz 1219 30 str Philadelphia
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 291; age 38; born Krakow; Agronom; arr 25.2; from Vilno