Chil Rubinek received transit visa no. 957 at the Japanese consulate in Kaunas on 3 August 1940. The register records manager, aged 45.
What the register records
Nationality as recorded
Polnisch
Age in 1940
45
Occupation
Manager
Family, per the Kitade-Bluman list
brother of #958
The journey
Reached Japan; aided by the Polish ambassador Tadeusz Romer; registered in Kobe for Burma.
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… 238, 1895 Jozefow; brother
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… no.582, age 46, b. Jozefow, menager, arr 25.2 from Vilno