Susel Sose received transit visa no. 1463 at the Japanese consulate in Kaunas on 7 August 1940. The register records dressmaker, aged 32.
What the register records
Nationality as recorded
Polnisch
Age in 1940
32
Occupation
Dressmaker
The journey
Reached Japan.
Where this comes from
Mark Halpern correspondence (9 Aug 2026): Netherlands Legation certificate, Tokyo, 18 March 1941 — Minister J.C. Pabst certifies that 74 named persons of Polish nationality "do not need a Netherlands visa in order to proceed to the Nethe… Pabst certificate #56; register line 'usel ose' (7 Aug 1940), repaired 'Susel Sose'
The list of seventy-four — Netherlands Legation, Tokyo, 18 March 1941. On the Legation's letterhead (Gezantschap der Nederlanden), certifying 'that the undermentioned persons all of Polish nationality do not need a Netherlands visa in or… Named at position 56 of seventy-four on the Netherlands Legation's certificate of 18 March 1941 — the list of the people who reached Tsuruga on Sugihara's transit visas without a Curaçao endorsement, were refused permission to land, and whose ship was turned back towards Vladivostok. The Legation typed the name as "Susel Sosia Mariam". A pencilled note beside it gives this register number, which is how the two records are joined.