Szmul Pinkus Wolmark received transit visa no. 823 at the Japanese consulate in Kaunas on 2 August 1940. The register records rabbi, aged 42.
What the register records
Nationality as recorded
Polnisch
Age in 1940
42
Occupation
Rabbi
Family, per the Kitade-Bluman list
wife Chana Leja (41), sons (Benjamin (10), Iszrael (6))
The journey
Reached Japan; reached Shanghai; registered in Kobe for USA.
Travelled with, and never given a number
Chana Leja — wife, aged 41
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.