Szymel Wilenski received transit visa no. 436 at the Japanese consulate in Kaunas on 30 July 1940. The register records yeshiva, aged 63.
What the register records
Nationality as recorded
Polnisch
Age in 1940
63
Occupation
Yeshiva
Family, per the Kitade-Bluman list
husband of #437
The journey
Reached Japan; reached Shanghai; aided by the Polish ambassador Tadeusz Romer; registered in Kobe for New Zealand.
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… #36, age 64, Szczuczyn, manuf., Polish; nephews J.Weil Chicago, ... NY
"List of persons arriving on route to New Zealand" — the arrival roster for the sailing from Japan, September 1941: 33 typed names, from Dr George Bluman’s own marked-up copy (sent 18 Aug 2026). Bluman’s red ticks mark the passengers he… Named on the list of persons arriving on route to New Zealand, sailing from Japan in 1941.