Finkelstein Teodor received transit visa no. 1680 at the Japanese consulate in Kaunas on 13 August 1940. The register records merchant, aged 41.
What the register records
Nationality as recorded
German
Age in 1940
41
Occupation
Merchant
Family, per the Kitade-Bluman list
wife Frida (41)
The journey
Reached Japan; reached Shanghai.
Travelled with, and never given a number
Frida — wife, aged 41
The register recorded visa holders. It did not reliably record the wives and children who travelled on somebody else’s visa, so these people have no entry of their own and cannot be searched for. Where the archive has recovered a name, it is here.
What is known
Edith Hamer, daughter of Louis Finkelstein (No. 7), told the USC Shoah Foundation in 1998 (interview 54889, tape 2, 13:30) that 'one of my father's brothers also received a visa from Sugihara' — Theodor Finkelstein, No. 1680, is that brother; she adds (13:02) that another relative reached Bolivia on false papers.
Where this comes from
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… 4; 42; b. Kackeshen; merchant; arr 13.2
Prof. Dr Ruth Leiserowitz (Berlin), correspondence of August 2026 — kinship and family connections among the visa holders, drawn from the Lithuanian records. What she established for each person is set out on that person's own entry. The…