Isak Szpigelman received transit visa no. 289 at the Japanese consulate in Kaunas on 30 July 1940. The register records manufacturer, aged 54.
What the register records
Nationality as recorded
Polnisch
Age in 1940
54
Occupation
Manufacturer
Family, per the Kitade-Bluman list
father of #288
The journey
Reached Japan; aided by the Polish ambassador Tadeusz Romer; registered in Kobe for Philippines.
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… 261, 1886 Bedzin, Polish; brother in law Emil Linton Sidney Potts Point 10a Challis Ave
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… #657, age 55, b. Bedzin, manufact., arr. 25.2, from Vilno, no.410