Walter Deutsch received transit visa no. 298 at the Japanese consulate in Kaunas on 30 July 1940. The register records manufacturer, aged 42.
What the register records
Nationality as recorded
Polnisch
Age in 1940
42
Occupation
Manufacturer
The journey
Reached Japan; aided by the Polish ambassador Tadeusz Romer; registered in Kobe for Burma.
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… 1898 Bielsko; Polish
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… #116, age 43, b. Bielsko, manufacturer, from Kovno