Benjamin Sadowski received transit visa no. 402 at the Japanese consulate in Kaunas on 30 July 1940. The register records timber specialist, aged 60.
What the register records
Nationality as recorded
Polnisch
Age in 1940
60
Occupation
Timber Specialist
The journey
Reached Japan; aided by the Polish ambassador Tadeusz Romer; registered in Kobe for Palestine.
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… 284; 60; Siedlce; timber spec.; Polish; brother L.Sadowski Jerusalem Bezalel str 225, daughter c/o Sadowski Wlada Shmidt 1257 N Ashland Ave Chicago Ill