Mejer Malin received transit visa no. 361 at the Japanese consulate in Kaunas on 30 July 1940. The register records rabbinical student - kamiencier yeshiva, aged 24.
Reached Japan; reached Shanghai; registered in Kobe for USA.
This is a Polish Legation certificate (Zaświadczenie/Certificat) issued in Kaunas (Kowno), Lithuania, to Malin Mejer, born 1906 in Brześć nad Bugiem, a single student and Polish citizen. Issued in the absence of a passport booklet, it authorized travel abroad and was valid together with Polish passport No. M-129/3/17/41 Ser III No. 7228. It was countersigned by the British Chargé d'Affaires acting for Polish interests in Lithuania.
A Japanese transit visa was issued at Kaunas in July 1940 by the Japanese consulate (Sugihara), authorizing travel through Japan toward Surinam, Curacao and other Netherlands possessions in America. The Dutch consul at Kaunas certified on 29 August 1940 that no entry visa was required for those destinations (Curacao endorsement). The document also bears a British Passport Control stamp from Shanghai dated 4 November 1941 granting a single-journey visa for Palestine, valid until 31 December 1941.
The page title references a 'Rescue visa Sugihara of Rabbi' listed as an auction lot on the Bidspirit Israeli online auction portal. However, the provided content contains no readable details about the visa number, issue date, holder's name, or family story.
