Johann Krause received transit visa no. 649 at the Japanese consulate in Kaunas on 1 August 1940. The register records lawyer, aged 33.
What the register records
Nationality as recorded
Polnisch
Age in 1940
33
Occupation
Lawyer
The journey
Reached Japan; reached Shanghai; aided by the Polish ambassador Tadeusz Romer; registered in Kobe for 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… 1907 Berlin; Polish; uncle Jacob Krause, 910 Lygon str North Carlton, Melbourne; uncle Herman Krause, 153 Sidney Road Brunswick Melbourne Australia
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… 34, b. Berlin, Lawyer, arr. 3.2