Mojsze Lejba Luzki received transit visa no. 538 at the Japanese consulate in Kaunas on 31 July 1940. The register records reverends yeshiva, aged 63.
What the register records
Nationality as recorded
Polnisch
Age in 1940
63
Occupation
Reverends Yeshiva
Family, per the Kitade-Bluman list
husband of #539, father of #824, daughter Marianne (27)
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
Marianne — daughter, aged 27
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… #434, 65, b. Korelicze, Rabbi, arr 14.2, from Vilno