Jankiel Pomeranc received transit visa no. 543 at the Japanese consulate in Kaunas on 31 July 1940. The register records rabbi, aged 44.
What the register records
Nationality as recorded
Polnisch
Age in 1940
44
Occupation
Rabbi
Family, per the Kitade-Bluman list
wife Bejla (42), children (Aron (14),Rahela (6),Vela (4), Michla (2))
The journey
Reached Japan; registered in Kobe for USA.
Travelled with, and never given a number
Bejla — wife, aged 42
Aron — child, aged 14
Rahela — child, aged 6
Vela — child, aged 4
Michla — child, aged 2
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.
What is known
A Lithuanian passport bearing a Japanese transit visa issued at the Consulate of Japan in Kaunas (Sugihara consulate). The holder, J. Pomeranc, born 5 December 1895 in Vilnius, was permitted transit through Japan, evidenced by the Japanese entry/transit stamps including one at Tsuruga (Fukui) dated Showa 15 (1940). A family photograph appears on the document.