Aram Luksenberg received transit visa no. 865 at the Japanese consulate in Kaunas on 2 August 1940. The register records merchant, aged 35.
What the register records
Nationality as recorded
Polnisch
Age in 1940
35
Occupation
Merchant
Family, per the Kitade-Bluman list
friend of #498 & #499
The journey
Reached Japan; aided by the Polish ambassador Tadeusz Romer; registered in Kobe for Palestine.
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… Entry 177 of the Kobe community's list of refugees and their relatives abroad: born 1904 at Chmielnik; relatives abroad: a brother, A. Luksenburg, Maidavale, London.
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 432 of the Kobe Jewish Community's refugee register: aged 37, born at Chmielnik, a merchant, who arrived in Japan from Vilnius on 25 February 1941.
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.