Gerszko Rotenberg received transit visa no. 611 at the Japanese consulate in Kaunas on 1 August 1940. The register records rabbinical student - lublin yeshiva, aged 29.
What the register records
Nationality as recorded
Polnisch
Age in 1940
29
Occupation
Rabbinical Student - Lublin Yeshiva
The journey
Reached Japan; aided by the Polish ambassador Tadeusz Romer; registered in Kobe for Canada.
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… 262, 30, Miedzyrzec, yeshiva, Polish; brother M.Rotenberg Cincinnati Ohio