Wargawtik Zorah
Wargawtik Zorah received transit visa no. 1946 at the Japanese consulate in Kaunas on 19 August 1940. The list enters this person twice: the same name is written again at No. 455, which is how George Bluman's lists record it.
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What the register records
- Nationality as recorded
- Polish
- Also entered as
- No. 455
What is known
A Japanese transit visa was issued in Kaunas on 19 August 1940 by the Japanese consulate, permitting travel through Japan to Surinam, Curacao and other Netherlands' colonies. The Soviet exit/transit visa numbered 114592/114593 was granted to Zarah Vargaftik with his wife Nauma Vargaftik and a child, for transit through the USSR via Vladivostok. Red Japanese entry-permit stamps show admission dated Showa 15 (1940), Fukui Prefecture.
TRANSIT VISA. Seen for the journey through Japan (to Suranam, Curacao and other Netherlands' colonies.) 1940 VIII. 19. Consul du Japon a Kaunas. ВИЗА № 114592, 114593 Владивосток
Where this comes from
- A visa page of the Warhaftig family's Lithuanian sauf-conduit: the Sugihara transit visa of 19 August 1940 and a Soviet visa, No. 114592/114593 — a second copy.
- Linas Venclauskas (VMU / Sugihara Diplomats for Life Foundation), 'He who saves one life…' — Sugihara essay for the Japan Institute of International Affairs Resource Library, Feb 2024