Wincenty Silwan received transit visa no. 446 at the Japanese consulate in Kaunas on 30 July 1940. The register records writer, aged 44.
What the register records
Nationality as recorded
Polnisch
Age in 1940
44
Occupation
Writer
The journey
Reached Japan; reached Shanghai.
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… No.159, age 45, b. Kalisz, Writer, arr. 2.1.