Adler Leo received transit visa no. 678 at the Japanese consulate in Kaunas on 1 August 1940. The register records mir yeshiva--student, aged 25.
What the register records
Nationality as recorded
German
Age in 1940
25
Occupation
Mir Yeshiva--Student
Family, per the Kitade-Bluman list
wife Bella (24)
The journey
Reached Japan; reached Shanghai; registered in Kobe for USA.
Travelled with, and never given a number
Bella — wife, aged 24, born Kedainiai, Lithuania
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.
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… #3, 25, b. Nuernberg, Teacher, from Kaunas, arr 24.12.
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum — oral history interview with Bella Adler, American Gathering of Jewish Holocaust Survivors oral history collection (accession 1995.A.1271.1, RG-50.119.0001) His wife's recorded testimony. She names him as Leo Adler, born at Ansbach, son of Nathan Adler, a schoolteacher at Nuremberg, and Miriam Adler nee Rothschild; a student of the Mir Yeshiva, which fled to her home town of Kedainiai. She was a teacher in Kaunas. They were separated: he reached Kobe and cabled her daily, and she kept every cable. The Japanese would not let him remain, and he was sent on to Shanghai, where he helped re-establish the yeshiva. She gave birth to their son while he was in Kobe, and he did not know. The register's own entry says German, Mir Yeshiva student, aged 25, reached Japan and Shanghai, bound for the United States, wife Bella aged 24.