The Sugihara Visa Archive

Nowgrodzki Markus Chaim

Visa no. 1506 · Kaunas, 7 August 1940

Nowgrodzki Markus Chaim received transit visa no. 1506 at the Japanese consulate in Kaunas on 7 August 1940. The register records student, aged 19.

What the register records

Nationality as recorded
Polnisch
Age in 1940
19
Occupation
Student

The journey

Reached Japan; registered in Kobe for USA.

What is known

Markus-Chaim Nowogrodzki received a Lithuanian transit visa (No. 654) issued in Kaunas in August 1940, along with a Japanese transit visa signed by the Consul du Japon a Kaunas for the journey through Japan to Suranem (Suriname), Curacao and other Netherlands' colonies, en route to the U.S.A. He also obtained a U.S. non-immigrant visa (No. 4) issued at the American Consul at Kaunas on July 20, 1940, and a Soviet transit visa (No. 114477) for travel through the USSR via Vladivostok. He was admitted at Seattle, Washington on October 31, 1940.

A Lithuanian Republic 'Leidimas / Sauf-Conduit' (safe-conduct in lieu of a foreign passport) issued to Markas-Chaim Nowogrodzki, a student born 13 September 1920 in Warsaw, with undetermined nationality and residing in Vilnius. The document was issued by the Head of Vilnius City and District, valid for all countries, expiring 5 January 1941. It bears his photograph and physical description (oval face, blue eyes, blond hair).

Markus-Chaim Nowogrodzki received a Lithuanian exit visa (Nr. 654, Vilnius) and a Japanese transit visa dated 8 August 1940 from the Japanese Consul at Kaunas, permitting a journey through Japan to the U.S.A. via Curacao and other Netherlands colonies. A Soviet transit visa (No. 114477, dated 13 September 1940) allowed passage through the USSR with exit at Vladivostok, and a non-quota U.S. non-immigrant visa (No. 4, dated July 20, 1940, issued at Kaunas) permitted entry to the United States. He was admitted at Seattle, Washington on October 31, 1940.

Where this comes from

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