Jakobovitsch Emil

Jakobovitsch Emil received transit visa no. 1964 at the Japanese consulate in Kaunas on 19 August 1940.

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What the register records

Nationality as recorded

checoslov.

Family, per the Kitade-Bluman list

plus one family member

The journey

Reached Japan; reached Shanghai; registered in Kobe for Israel.

What is known

This passport belonging to Emil Jakubovic bears the Curacao visa declaration issued by Jan Zwartendijk, the Dutch consul in Kaunas, on 31 July 1940, stating that no entry visa is required for admission to Surinam, Curacao and other Dutch possessions in America. The passport also contains an earlier Lithuanian transit visa (Nr. 87, Vilnius, 14 November 1939) and a Kaunas police registration stamp from 18 November 1939.

A Japanese transit visa issued by the Consulate of Japan at Kaunas, Lithuania, dated 22 August 1940, signed as acting consul (in the Sugihara style). It authorizes transit through Japan to Surinam, Curacao and other Netherlands' colonies. The opposite page bears Soviet transit stamps (Viza No. 299518, Vladivostok) and later Japanese entry/transit permits dated 1941, indicating passage via the Trans-Siberian route to Vladivostok and onward toward America.

This is a passport of Emil Jakubovic (Jakobovitsch), a Czechoslovak citizen. A Soviet transit visa No. 293518 was extended until the 15th of April 1941, per a Russian-language stamp. The passport was later renewed by the Embassy of the Czechoslovak Republic in China (Nanking) on 1 November 1946, valid until 31 October 1947.

Le Consulat des Pays-Bas a Kaunas declare par la presente que pour l'admission d'etrangers au Surinam, au Curacao et autres possessions neerlandaises en Amerique un visa d'entree n'est pas requis. No 1896 VIZA Nr. 87 Consul des Pays-Bas

TRANSIT VISA. Seen for the journey through Japan (to Surinam, Curacao and other Netherlands' colonies) 1940 VIII. 22 Consul du Japon a Kaunas. Виза № 299518 Владивосток

Виза N 293518 продлена по (15) пятнадцатое апреля 1941 года EMBASSY OF THE CZECHOSLOVAK REPUBLIC IN CHINA Majitel pasu Emil Jakubovic V Nankingu dne 1.XI.1946

Where this comes from

• The Czechoslovak passport of Emil Jakubovič, issued 1938 — the identity page.
  Five pages of a Czechoslovak passport in the name of Emil Jakubovič, issued in 1938, the holder recorded as travelling with his wife. The register's nationality column for this line reads Czechoslovak — the only such entry on the page — which the passport independently confirms. The wife is not named on the pages read.
• The Czechoslovak passport of Emil Jakubovič, issued 1938 — a visa page.
  Five pages of a Czechoslovak passport in the name of Emil Jakubovič, issued in 1938, the holder recorded as travelling with his wife. The register's nationality column for this line reads Czechoslovak — the only such entry on the page — which the passport independently confirms. The wife is not named on the pages read.
• JDC Archives, New York, collection AR 33/44 file 53 (the Jewish Community of Kobe's returns to the JDC, 1941; Set I, item 00761) — Set I pp. 5–7 — "List… — "List of persons who left Japan for Shanghai in the month of July 1941", Nos. 1–15
  He left Japan for Shanghai on the Shanghai Maru, sailing from Kobe on 2 July 1941 (the Jewish Community of Kobe's list of persons who left Japan for Shanghai, July 1941 (JDC Archives, AR 33/44 file 53)). The list reads: "Jakubowics [E]mil — C.S.R. — Kobe". (Shanghai Maru, Kobe, 2 July 1941, destination Shanghai.)
• The Czechoslovak passport of Emil Jakubovič (No. 1964), pp. 10–11: a Lithuanian visa No. 87 issued at Vilnius in November 1939 and Zwartendijk's Curaçao declaration No. 1896 of 31 July 1940.
• The Czechoslovak passport of Emil Jakubovič (No. 1964), p. 13: the Sugihara transit visa of 22 August 1940, a Soviet exit visa No. 299518 for Vladivostok, and a Japanese landing permit.
• The Czechoslovak passport of Emil Jakubovič (No. 1964), pp. 14–15: a Russian endorsement of visa No. 299518, and the passport's renewal by the Czechoslovak Embassy in China to 31 October 1947.
• The Czechoslovak passport of Emil Jakubovič (No. 1964): his photograph page beside the page with his Sugihara transit visa of 22 August 1940.
• The Czechoslovak passport of Emil Jakubovič (No. 1964), pp. 10–11: the Lithuanian visa No. 87 and Zwartendijk's Curaçao declaration No. 1896 of 31 July 1940.
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