Sztycer Nachman

Sztycer Nachman received transit visa no. 1976 at the Japanese consulate in Kaunas on 19 August 1940. The register records student, aged 23.

What the register records

Nationality as recorded

Polish

Age in 1940

23

Occupation

Student

The journey

Reached Japan; reached Shanghai.

Where this comes from

• 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 51. Cross-referenced by Mark Halpern, researcher (Aug 2026); archive pass concurs. register row reads Sztycer Nachman.
• The Shanghai Ledger — register of Polish citizens kept by the Consulate of Poland in Shanghai, 1934-1943 (original at the Archives of the Polish Ministry of Foreign Affairs, ref. 43/2003; digitised by the Library of Congress; indexed as…
  Registered with the Polish Consulate in Shanghai (ledger entry 1458); the names closely match this register line — approved by the owner's review, 19 Aug 2026 — LEDGER ENTRY READ: Sztycer Nachman Boruch, student, born 25 March 1917 Lublin, single; 805 Seward Road; Tokyo-issued passport of 2 December 1941 — found on reading the page.
• 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 51 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 "Sztycer Nachman Boruch". A pencilled note beside it gives this register number, which is how the two records are joined.