Nochim Bytenski received transit visa no. 858 at the Japanese consulate in Kaunas on 2 August 1940. The register records rabbi, aged 53.
What the register records
Nationality as recorded
Polnisch
Age in 1940
53
Occupation
Rabbi
Family, per the Kitade-Bluman list
wife Duszka (50)
The journey
Reached Japan; reached Shanghai; registered in Kobe for USA.
Travelled with, and never given a number
Duszka — wife, aged 50
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… 46; age 55; b. Warsaw; merchant; brother A.Bytenski Hayarkon 53 Tel Aviv, sister in law B.Kapel 1250 42 str Brooklyn NY, brother I.Byton Wellington New Zeeland