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… 177, 1904 Chmielnik; 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… #432, 37, b. Chmielnik, merchant, arr 25.2, from Vilno