The Sugihara Visa Archive

Wulfson Hersz

Visa no. 2095 · Kaunas, 21 August 1940

Wulfson Hersz received transit visa no. 2095 at the Japanese consulate in Kaunas on 21 August 1940. The register records merchant, aged 49.

What the register records

Nationality as recorded
Polish
Age in 1940
49
Occupation
Merchant
Family, per the Kitade-Bluman list
wife Rywa (46), daughter Zofia (17)

The journey

Registered in Kobe for Palestine.

Travelled with, and never given a number

The register recorded visa holders. It did not reliably record the wives and children who travelled on somebody else’s visa, so these people have no entry of their own and cannot be searched for. Where the archive has recovered a name, it is here.

What is known

This is a Lithuanian Sauf-Conduit (Leidimas), a travel document issued in lieu of a foreign passport, delivered at Kaunas on 3 September 1940 to Hersz Wulfson, a merchant of indeterminate nationality born in Bialystok in 1891 and residing in Vilnius. He was accompanied by his wife Rywa (born 20 February 1894 in Bialystok) and their daughter Zofia (born 24 November 1922). The document is valid for all countries and linked to certificate no. W-99, expiring 2 March 1941.

This is a Lithuanian sauf-conduit (Leidimas) issued in lieu of a foreign passport at Kaunas in September 1940 to Hersz Wulfson, a merchant born 10 July 1891 in Bialystok and residing in Vilnius. He is accompanied by his wife Rywa (born 20 July 1894 in Bialystok) and their daughter Zofia (born 1922). The document was valid for all countries and set to expire in January-March 1941.

Hersz Wulfson and his family members Riwa and Sofia received a Japanese transit visa issued at Kaunas on 31 August 1940, permitting travel through Japan en route to Palestine (and other Netherlands colonies). Soviet transit visas (Nos. 11471, 11472, 11473) authorized their passage through the USSR via Odessa, with temporary stay in Moscow permitted until 25 September 1940.

Where this comes from

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