Juliusz Nowinski received transit visa no. 597 at the Japanese consulate in Kaunas on 31 July 1940. The register records industrialist, aged 45.
What the register records
Nationality as recorded
Polnisch
Age in 1940
45
Occupation
Industrialist
Family, per the Kitade-Bluman list
husband of #363, child Hanna (15)
The journey
Reached Japan; aided by the Polish ambassador Tadeusz Romer; registered in Kobe for Argentina.
Travelled with, and never given a number
Hanna — child, aged 15
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.
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.3, age 45, born Lodz, Industrialist, from Kaunas