Calko Kojdanowski received transit visa no. 827 at the Japanese consulate in Kaunas on 2 August 1940. The register records rabbi - mir yeshiva, aged 45.
What the register records
Nationality as recorded
Polnisch
Age in 1940
45
Occupation
Rabbi - Mir Yeshiva
Family, per the Kitade-Bluman list
husband of #826, children (Hadasa (7), Ester (0))
The journey
Reached Japan; reached Shanghai; registered in Kobe for USA.
Travelled with, and never given a number
Hadasa — child, aged 7
Ester — child, aged 0
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 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… 157, 48, Mir, Rabbi, Polish; brother Sam Madin 109 Brunswick Ave Toronto Ont Canada, brother Irving Madin 170 Broadway NY, uncle S.Madin 789 End Ave New York