Aleksander Tempel received transit visa no. 661 at the Japanese consulate in Kaunas on 1 August 1940. The register records lawyer, aged 55.
What the register records
Nationality as recorded
Polnisch
Age in 1940
55
Occupation
Lawyer
Family, per the Kitade-Bluman list
wife Gustawa (53)
The journey
Reached Japan; registered in Kobe for USA.
Travelled with, and never given a number
Gustawa — wife, aged 53
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… No.182, age 56, b. Czestochowa, Lawyer, arr 2.1, left USA 21.1.1941