Icek Taub received transit visa no. 558 at the Japanese consulate in Kaunas on 31 July 1940. The register records rabbinical student - lublin yeshiva, aged 17.
What the register records
Nationality as recorded
Polnisch
Age in 1940
17
Occupation
Rabbinical Student - Lublin Yeshiva
Family, per the Kitade-Bluman list
brother of #557
The journey
Reached Japan; aided by the Polish ambassador Tadeusz Romer; registered in Kobe for USA.
Where this comes from
M.S. Hie Maru, Kobe 4 May – Yokohama 7 May – Seattle 18 May 1941, sheet 6 of 11 Hie Maru passenger no. 118; 18y 7m; Student; b. Rakow, Poland; last residence Vilnius, Lithuania; US visa Q.I.V.6278, 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