Rachil Cyrelson received transit visa no. 629 at the Japanese consulate in Kaunas on 1 August 1940. Aged 60 in 1940.
What the register records
Nationality as recorded
Polnisch
Age in 1940
60
Family, per the Kitade-Bluman list
grandson Morduch (7)
The journey
Reached Japan; reached Shanghai; registered in Kobe for USA.
Travelled with, and never given a number
Morduch — son, aged 7
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… #11, Lithuania, 62, born Mogileff