Idel Ilutowicz received transit visa no. 334 at the Japanese consulate in Kaunas on 30 July 1940. The register records merchant, aged 54.
What the register records
Nationality as recorded
Polnisch
Age in 1940
54
Occupation
Merchant
Family, per the Kitade-Bluman list
husband of #720
The journey
Reached Japan; reached Shanghai; registered in Kobe for Australia.
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… Entry 113 of the Kobe community's list of refugees and their relatives abroad: born 1886 at Lida.
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… Entry 217 of the Kobe Jewish Community's refugee register: aged 55, born at Lida, a merchant, who arrived in Japan from Vilnius on 23 February 1941.