Sroka Nachman received transit visa no. 1500 at the Japanese consulate in Kaunas on 7 August 1940. The register records office clerk, aged 25.
What the register records
Nationality as recorded
Polnisch
Age in 1940
25
Occupation
Office clerk
What is known
This is a Polish Legation certificate (Zaswiadczenie/Certificat) issued in Kaunas (Kowno), Lithuania, on 6 August 1940, confirming that Nachman-Icchok Sroka was a Polish citizen. It was issued to compensate for the lack of passport documents and to authorize travel abroad. Sroka, born 1 June 1915 in Warsaw, was single and worked as an office clerk (biuralista/employe de bureau).
A Sugihara transit visa stamp issued at the Japanese Consulate in Kaunas, Lithuania, dated 8 August 1940. It authorizes transit through Japan en route to Surinam, Curacao and other Netherlands colonies. The stamp bears the Japanese consular seal and handwritten Japanese notations indicating a limited transit period.
Where this comes from
Polish Legation at Kaunas — certificate Nr. 2-23, dated 1940, issued to SROKA Nachman-Icchok, born 1 February 1915, single (wolny / celibataire), a bookkeeper (buchalter / employe de bureau), of medium height with a round face. Issued in… The first document this line has ever had, and it agrees with the register on four things independently. The register gives Sroka Nachman, 25, an office clerk, visa written 7 August 1940. The certificate gives Sroka Nachman-Icchok born 1 February 1915 — twenty-five that August — and records his trade as buchalter, employe de bureau, which is the same occupation in the two languages the form is printed in. It also gives him the second given name the ledger left out.