Mowsza-Girsas Teresiskinas received transit visa no. 506 at the Japanese consulate in Kaunas on 31 July 1940.
What the register records
Nationality as recorded
Lithuanien
What is known
Movsha-Girshas Teresiskinas of register No.506 was Moses Terescheschkin, a chemist who lived in Memel with his wife. He was the elder brother of Mera (Meta) Zalkowitz, whose own family — holding a Metropol Hotel visa from Sugihara, amended by hand toward Canada — reached Vancouver. The kinship was established by Prof. Ruth Leiserowitz in August 2026, from Lithuanian records showing shared parents. What became of Moses and his wife is not established. No record of their arrival anywhere has been found, and the archive holds no document of their fate. If you know it, the archive would be glad to hear from you.
Where this comes from
Livio Sirovich, the printed memoir of Jacob Zalkowitz — the excerpt describing the family's escape from Memel through Kovno, the Trans-Siberian railway, Japan and Canada. Given to the archive by Prof. Dr Ruth Leiserowitz, August 2026. The printed memoir of his brother-in-law Jacob Zalkowitz, excerpted in a published book: it follows the family's escape from Memel through Kovno and the Trans-Siberian to Japan and Canada, and names Meta's brother, with his family, standing in the Soviet visa queue at Kovno on the day the office closed. This is the document behind the kinship the archive records here on Prof. Dr Ruth Leiserowitz's reading. It states no fate for him: the passage about a brother later killed in Lithuania concerns Jacob Zalkowitz's own brother, not Meta's.
Prof. Dr Ruth Leiserowitz (Berlin), correspondence of August 2026 — kinship and family connections among the visa holders, drawn from the Lithuanian records. What she established for each person is set out on that person's own entry. The…
Prof. Dr. Ruth Leiserowitz, email of 21 August 2026 — the basis for Mera/Meta Zalkowitz and Movsha-Girshas Teresiskinas (Moses Terescheschkin, No.506) being siblings: the same parents in Telsiai in LitvakSIG's All Lithuania Database; Jac…