Bialikiene Bialikas Freide received transit visa no. 1810 at the Japanese consulate in Kaunas on 16 August 1940.
What the register records
Nationality as recorded
Lithuanien
Where this comes from
Prof. Dr Ruth Leiserowitz (Berlin), correspondence of 20 August 2026 — research notes on six lines of the register, drawn from Lithuanian, German and United States records. What she found for each person is set out on that person's own e… Prof. Leiserowitz reads this line as a married couple — Joseph Bialik, stateless, born 13 January 1898, and his wife Freide Bialikiene née Zimon. He did not travel east. He sailed from Petsamo, on the Arctic coast, on 21 October 1940 and reached New York on 6 November, which makes him the only person on this register the archive knows to have left Europe by the northern route rather than through Siberia and Japan. The register's companion notes agree that he reached neither Japan nor Shanghai. He travelled without his family, and the archive has no record of what became of Freide Bialikiene.
Kauno regioninis valstybes archyvas (Kaunas Regional State Archive), fond 66 — the Kaunas City Municipality Passport Department — inventory 2, file 4343: the internal passport card of BIALIKIENE, gim. ZIMONAITE, FREIDE, daughter of Arona… A Kaunas passport card of 15 March 1940, held at the Kaunas Regional State Archive, names BIALIKIENĖ, gim. ZIMONAITĖ — Bialikienė, née Zimonaitė — Freidė, daughter of Aronas: a housewife living in Kaunas, born 16 April 1899 in the Kretinga district, Jewish, married, of medium height with black hair and grey eyes. It carries her photograph and her signature, Freidė Bialikienė. The maiden name is what makes this worth publishing. Prof. Dr Ruth Leiserowitz, reading this register line from German and Lithuanian records, told the archive in August 2026 that it records a married couple and that the wife was Freide Bialikiene née Zimon. Sugihara's register contains no maiden name at all — it gives only Bialikiene Bialikas Freide. This card, which Prof. Leiserowitz did not cite, says née Zimonaitė, the Lithuanian form of the same name. Two readings that never met agree on a fact neither could have taken from the register. The archive still stops short of an identification. It agrees on the given name, the married surname, the maiden name, residence at Kaunas, marital status and a date five months before the visa — but the register gives this line no birth year and no birthplace to test…