The Sugihara Visa Archive

Izak Braude

Visa no. 1814 · Kaunas, 16 August 1940

Izak Braude received transit visa no. 1814 at the Japanese consulate in Kaunas on 16 August 1940. Aged 49 in 1940. The list enters this person twice: the same name is written again at No. 1947, which is how George Bluman's lists record it.

What the register records

Nationality as recorded
Lithuanien
Age in 1940
49
Also entered as
No. 1947

What is known

Boruch Szefner received a second Sugihara visa (#1814) under his assumed identity Izak Braude, which he had adopted to hide from Soviet authorities after their takeover of Lithuania. He successfully escaped via Japan to the United States.

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