Leopold Lajzerowicz received transit visa no. 431 at the Japanese consulate in Kaunas on 30 July 1940. The register records physician, aged 45.
What the register records
Nationality as recorded
Polnisch
Age in 1940
45
Occupation
Physician
Family, per the Kitade-Bluman list
husband of #430, children (Stanislaw (12), Alexander (9))
The journey
Reached Japan; reached Shanghai; aided by the Polish ambassador Tadeusz Romer; registered in Kobe for USA.
Travelled with, and never given a number
Stanislaw — child, aged 12
Alexander — child, aged 9
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… #405, 46, b. Czestochowa, Phisician, arr 13.2, from Vilno, left for S.Francisko 27.2.41