Abraham Sommer received transit visa no. 489 at the Japanese consulate in Kaunas on 31 July 1940. The register records dealer in wood, aged 30.
What the register records
Nationality as recorded
Polnisch
Age in 1940
30
Occupation
Dealer In Wood
Family, per the Kitade-Bluman list
wife Regina (34), child Rytha (3)
The journey
Reached Japan; aided by the Polish ambassador Tadeusz Romer; registered in Kobe for Palestine.
Travelled with, and never given a number
Regina — wife, aged 34
Rytha — child, aged 3
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 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… 228; brother in law-Maurycy Lustig Jehuda Lewi 100 Tel Aviv; cousin-Braczewski NY
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.164, age 30, b. N.Sacz, Dealer in Wood, arr. 25.1.