Sztiglic Izrael received transit visa no. 1922 at the Japanese consulate in Kaunas on 19 August 1940. The register records rabbinical student - lublin yeshiva, aged 16.
What the register records
Nationality as recorded
Polish
Age in 1940
16
Occupation
Rabbinical Student - Lublin Yeshiva
The journey
Reached Japan; reached Shanghai; registered in Kobe for USA.
Where this comes from
The Kobe relatives list — refugees at Kobe in 1941 recorded with their relatives abroad. Seventy-six pages in numbered sheets (LIST No. 7, No. 16 and others), each line giving a name, age, birthplace, occupation and citizenship, and then… 307, 17, Sosnowiec, yeshiva
Mark Halpern correspondence (9 Aug 2026): Netherlands Legation certificate, Tokyo, 18 March 1941 — Minister J.C. Pabst certifies that 74 named persons of Polish nationality "do not need a Netherlands visa in order to proceed to the Nethe… Amakusa Maru 74 — Netherlands Legation certificate (Tokyo, 18 Mar 1941), line 34. Cross-referenced by Mark Halpern, researcher (Aug 2026); archive pass concurs.
The list of seventy-four — Netherlands Legation, Tokyo, 18 March 1941. On the Legation's letterhead (Gezantschap der Nederlanden), certifying 'that the undermentioned persons all of Polish nationality do not need a Netherlands visa in or… Named at position 34 of seventy-four on the Netherlands Legation's certificate of 18 March 1941 — the list of the people who reached Tsuruga on Sugihara's transit visas without a Curaçao endorsement, were refused permission to land, and whose ship was turned back towards Vladivostok. The Legation typed the name as "Sztiglic Izrael". A pencilled note beside it gives this register number, which is how the two records are joined.