Szlama Jakow Marber received transit visa no. 837 at the Japanese consulate in Kaunas on 2 August 1940. The register records student, aged 19.
What the register records
Nationality as recorded
Polnisch
Age in 1940
19
Occupation
Student
The journey
Reached Japan; registered in Kobe for Palestine.
Where this comes from
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… Entry 17 on the December 1940 sheet of the Kobe Jewish Community's refugee register: aged 19, born at Turek, a student, who arrived in Japan from Vilnius on 14 December 1940; left for Palestine.
The numbered Sugihara visa list, the page of 2 August 1940 carrying Nos. 795 to 865 (among them No. 805, Szaps Jaskolka), photographed beside a ruler.