Majer Rejchman received transit visa no. 358 at the Japanese consulate in Kaunas on 30 July 1940. The register records lawyer, aged 37.
What the register records
Nationality as recorded
Polnisch
Age in 1940
37
Occupation
Lawyer
The journey
Reached Japan; reached Shanghai; aided by the Polish ambassador Tadeusz Romer; registered in Kobe for Argentina.
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… 92; 67; Essingen
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… No.141, age 37, Lawyer