Leon Szubert received transit visa no. 812 at the Japanese consulate in Kaunas on 2 August 1940. The register records lawyer, aged 37.
What the register records
Nationality as recorded
Polnisch
Age in 1940
37
Occupation
Lawyer
The journey
Reached Japan; aided by the Polish ambassador Tadeusz Romer; registered in Kobe for Canada.
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… 247; 1903 Krakow; cousin-Izaak Fajwel c/o Herzog P.O.B.78 Jerusalem; cousin-Ewa Golomb Goodfarm Llannwehllyn N.Walace
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… #663, age 38, b. Krakow, lawyer, from Vilno