Aleksander Wilner

Aleksander Wilner received transit visa no. 416 at the Japanese consulate in Kaunas on 30 July 1940. Aged 45 in 1940.

What the register records

Nationality as recorded

Polnisch

Age in 1940

45

The journey

Reached Japan; reached Shanghai.

Where this comes from

• JDC Archives Names Database — “Vilna Refugees, 1940”: Polish Jewish refugees receiving JDC aid after moving east to Vilna, Lithuania in 1940 to escape the Nazi regime. Searched for the surname Wilner on 26 August 2026 (46 records returne…
  Named on the JDC's list of Polish Jewish refugees receiving aid in Vilna in 1940 (JDC Names Database item 250168). TENTATIVE: the register gives this man only a surname, a given name and a nationality — no age and no birthplace — so the match rests on the name together with the population and the year. It is the right population: the Vilna refugees of 1940 are the pool Sugihara's applicants came from, and this line's visa was issued on 30 July 1940. It is not proof, and the archive would want an age or a birthplace before calling it settled.