Samson Gordon received transit visa no. 278 at the Japanese consulate in Kaunas on 30 July 1940. The register records manufacturer, aged 44.
What the register records
Nationality as recorded
Polnisch
Age in 1940
44
Occupation
Manufacturer
Family, per the Kitade-Bluman list
husband of #279, daughter Luba (10)
The journey
Reached Japan; reached Shanghai; registered in Kobe for USA.
Travelled with, and never given a number
Luba — daughter, aged 10
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… No.91, 1895 Wysokie; cousin Isidor Golub 144-30 Millside Ave New York
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… 182, 46, Wzsokie, manufact., arr 24.2