Chaskiel Taub received transit visa no. 557 at the Japanese consulate in Kaunas on 31 July 1940. The register records rabbi - lublin yeshiva, aged 27.
What the register records
Nationality as recorded
Polnisch
Age in 1940
27
Occupation
Rabbi - Lublin Yeshiva
Family, per the Kitade-Bluman list
brother of #558
The journey
Reached Japan; aided by the Polish ambassador Tadeusz Romer; registered in Kobe for USA.
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… 332; 28; Stofnica; Rabbi; Father S.Taub 105 Ross Str Brooklyn NY, brother Rabbi Taub Lilienblum 11 Tel Aviv
M.S. Hie Maru, Kobe 4 May – Yokohama 7 May – Seattle 18 May 1941, sheet 6 of 11 Hie Maru passenger no. 117; 27y 11m; Rabbi; b. Stopnica, Poland; last residence Vilnius, Lithuania; US visa Q.I.V.6277, issued Yokohama, 4-30-1941; to Brooklyn, N.Y.; joining Father, Szoel Taub, 105 Ross St. Brooklyn, N.Y.; nearest relative left behind: Sister, Malke Viszkowska, Ofwock Niecala 6 Poland