Jakob Bieberstein received transit visa no. 325 at the Japanese consulate in Kaunas on 30 July 1940. The register records teacher, aged 41.
What the register records
Nationality as recorded
Polnisch
Age in 1940
41
Occupation
Teacher
Family, per the Kitade-Bluman list
wife Pauline (28)
The journey
Reached Japan; reached Shanghai; registered in Kobe for Ecuador.
Travelled with, and never given a number
Pauline — wife, aged 28
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 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… #46, 43, b. Wloclawek, Clerk, arr 13.2, from Vilno