Izrael Lejb Rozmarin received transit visa no. 560 at the Japanese consulate in Kaunas on 31 July 1940. The register records merchant, aged 46.
What the register records
Nationality as recorded
Polnisch
Age in 1940
46
Occupation
Merchant
Family, per the Kitade-Bluman list
husband of #547
The journey
Reached Japan; aided by the Polish ambassador Tadeusz Romer; registered in Kobe for New Zealand.
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… Entry 229 of the Kobe community's list of refugees and their relatives abroad: born 1894 at Lancut, Polish; relatives abroad: a cousin, Sidney Croney, Wichita, Kansas.
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… Entry 564 of the Kobe Jewish Community's refugee register: aged 47, born at Lancut, a merchant, who arrived in Japan from Vilnius on 25 February 1941.
"List of persons arriving on route to New Zealand" — the arrival roster for the sailing from Japan, September 1941: 33 typed names, from Dr George Bluman’s own marked-up cop… — September 1941, not July; he had misread his own handwriting. Named on the list of persons arriving on route to New Zealand, sailing from Japan in 1941. The ledger's line reads 'osmarin' — the R lost off the front.