Julian Brejt received transit visa no. 817 at the Japanese consulate in Kaunas on 2 August 1940. The register records lawyer, aged 26.
What the register records
Nationality as recorded
Polnisch
Age in 1940
26
Occupation
Lawyer
The journey
Reached Japan; aided by the Polish ambassador Tadeusz Romer; registered in Kobe for Palestine.
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… 1914 Krakow; cous.H.Gutstein 221w 82 str N.Y.; I.Feiwel c/o Herzog Pob.78 Jeruz.
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… #74, 27, b. Krakow, Lawyer, arr 13.2, from Vilno