Jeszaja Lichtiger received transit visa no. 579 at the Japanese consulate in Kaunas on 31 July 1940. Aged 22 in 1940.
What the register records
Nationality as recorded
Polnisch
Age in 1940
22
Family, per the Kitade-Bluman list
brother of #1389
The journey
Reached Japan; reached Shanghai; aided by the Polish ambassador Tadeusz Romer; registered in Kobe for Palestine.
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… No.104, age 26, b. Brzesc, from Vilno