Aleksandr Engelman received transit visa no. 633 at the Japanese consulate in Kaunas on 1 August 1940. The register records lawyer, aged 35.
What the register records
Nationality as recorded
Polnisch
Age in 1940
35
Occupation
Lawyer
The journey
Reached Japan; registered in Kobe for USA.
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 60 of the Kobe community's list of refugees and their relatives abroad: aged 35, born at Warsaw, a lawyer; relatives abroad: an uncle, M. Shereshowsky, Hotel Bristol, Tel Aviv; E. Leshchinsky, Ben Yehuda 94/7, Tel Aviv; Professor Gustaw Birstein, New York.