Lejb Dichter received transit visa no. 848 at the Japanese consulate in Kaunas on 2 August 1940. The register records teacher, aged 30.
What the register records
Nationality as recorded
Polnisch
Age in 1940
30
Occupation
Teacher
Family, per the Kitade-Bluman list
wife Chaja (24)
The journey
Reached Japan; reached Shanghai; registered in Kobe for USA.
Travelled with, and never given a number
Chaja — wife, aged 24
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.
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… No.36, 1909 Wlodzimierz; brother D.Dicken 18403 Indiana Detroit Michigan, sister Basia Holzman 672 Howard Ave Brooklyn NY, uncle M.Rawin 429 Prescott Toledo Ohio
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… #110, age 32, b. Wlodzimierz, clerk, arr 25.2, from Vilno
hunt/jdc_shanghai: JDC Shanghai migration file: DICHTER Lejb JDC Archives, New York collection AR3344, 'Complete Shanghai Migration Files' (NY_AR3344_00014), page 19: DICHTER Lejb, file no. 5779. Match: register No.848 'Lejb Dichter', and the register independently records this person as reaching Shanghai. Both name parts agree. NOTE: the index carries no age