Frankel Benjamin-wolf received transit visa no. 275 at the Japanese consulate in Kaunas on 30 July 1940. The register records textiles, aged 31.
What the register records
Nationality as recorded
Polnisch
Age in 1940
31
Occupation
Textiles
Family, per the Kitade-Bluman list
husband of #282, child Berl Berchik (12), brother of #282
The journey
Reached Japan; aided by the Polish ambassador Tadeusz Romer; registered in Kobe for New Zealand.
Travelled with, and never given a number
Berl Berchik — child, aged 12
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
"List of persons arriving on route to New Zealand" — the arrival roster for the sailing from Japan, September 1941: 33 typed names, from Dr George Bluman’s own marked-up copy (sent 18 Aug 2026). Bluman’s red ticks mark the passengers he… Named on the list of persons arriving on route to New Zealand, sailing from Japan in 1941. The register spells it Frenkiel.