Joahim Szporn received transit visa no. 85 at the Japanese consulate in Kaunas on 29 July 1940. The register records merchant, aged 64.
What the register records
Nationality as recorded
Polnisch
Age in 1940
64
Occupation
Merchant
Family, per the Kitade-Bluman list
wife Pechla (63), father of #2132
The journey
Reached Japan; registered in Kobe for Brazil.
Travelled with, and never given a number
Pechla — wife, aged 63
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.