Szporn Joachim
Visa no. 2120 · Kaunas, 22 August 1940
Szporn Joachim received transit visa no. 2120 at the Japanese consulate in Kaunas on 22 August 1940. The list enters this person twice: the same name is written again at No. 85, which is how George Bluman's lists record it.
What the register records Nationality as recorded Polisch Also entered as No. 85
Where this comes from United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, Holocaust Survivors and Victims Database — the Flight and Rescue electronic dataset (source 20725): USHMM's own transcription of the Kaunas register, 2,140 persons with citizenship, visa type, iss… USHMM Flight and Rescue dataset: arrived in Japan 2 Jan 1941 (line 2120) "California, Los Angeles, Passenger Lists, 1907-1948", FamilySearch — index entry for Joachim Szporn, 1941: born about 1872, Zarki, Poland. Digitised from NARA microfilm publication M1764 (passenger lists of vessels arriving at Los Angel… FamilySearch's index of the Los Angeles passenger lists, read by the archive on 20 September 2026, has Joachim Szporn, born about 1872 in Zarki, Poland, arriving at Los Angeles in 1941. The register has no age for the line. A lead only: the register carries 2 lines of this name, and the index entry cannot be assigned to one of them without the manifest sheet.
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Szporn Joachim is one of 2,140 people recorded in the surviving register of the transit
visas Chiune Sugihara issued at the Japanese consulate in Kaunas, Lithuania, in 1940.
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