Chaim Gabriel Zaskind received transit visa no. 627 at the Japanese consulate in Kaunas on 1 August 1940. The register records clerk, aged 30.
What the register records
Nationality as recorded
Polnisch
Age in 1940
30
Occupation
Clerk
Family, per the Kitade-Bluman list
wife Raisa
The journey
Reached Shanghai; destination given in the Kitade-Bluman list: Australia.
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 379 of the Kobe community's list of refugees and their relatives abroad: aged 31, born at Warsaw, a clerk, Polish; relatives abroad: an uncle, B. Pupko, 520 West 144th Street, New York; a brother-in-law, Sz. Askenasy, Sh. Lewin Street 8, Tel Aviv, Palestine.