Jakob Liberman received transit visa no. 423 at the Japanese consulate in Kaunas on 30 July 1940. Aged 21 in 1940.
Reached Japan; reached Shanghai; registered in Kobe for Palestine.
An open passport spread showing multiple transit and consular visa stamps, including a British Consulate-General (Kobe, Japan) transit visa and a Netherlands colonial visa reference, consistent with the Sugihara/Zwartendijk escape route through Japan. The document bears numerous Japanese-language stamps and consular seals but no clearly legible holder name.
This document is a passport page bearing both a Curacao/Netherlands destination declaration from the Dutch Consulate at Kaunas (dated 27 July 1940, signed by Consul Jan Zwartendijk) and a Japanese transit visa issued by the Japanese Consul at Kaunas dated 30 July 1940. The transit visa permits the journey to Surinam, Curacao and other Netherlands colonies through Japan. Additional stamps show a Soviet NKVD registration (February 1941), a Japanese entry permit (Fukui Prefecture, Showa 16 / 1941), a Yokohama Specie Bank Kobe branch currency stamp, and a British visa for Palestine issued at the British Consulate General in Kobe, indicating the holder traveled the Trans-Siberian route through…