Josef Lejzerowicz received transit visa no. 902 at the Japanese consulate in Kaunas on 3 August 1940. The register records journalist, aged 24.
What the register records
Nationality as recorded
Polnisch
Age in 1940
24
Occupation
Journalist
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… 1915 Lalicz; Polish; sister Lejzerowicz Dina, Kefar Hasidim near Haifa Palestine; aunte N.Shiff Keren Kaiemet 8, Jerusalem; uncle Reverend Maks Lefserowitz, 1353 53 str. Brooklin N.Y.
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… #411, 26, b. Lalicz, Journalist, arr 3.2, from Vilno