Izrael Rubinek received transit visa no. 958 at the Japanese consulate in Kaunas on 3 August 1940. The register records clerk, aged 40.
What the register records
Nationality as recorded
Polnisch
Age in 1940
40
Occupation
Clerk
Family, per the Kitade-Bluman list
brother of #957
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… 237, 1899 Jozefow; Rubinek Curaçao Willemstatt
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.583, age 41, b. Jozefow, clerk, from Vilno