Danuta Lapacz received transit visa no. 515 at the Japanese consulate in Kaunas on 31 July 1940.
What the register records
Nationality as recorded
Polnisch
Family, per the Kitade-Bluman list
wife of #516
The journey
Reached Japan; aided by the Polish ambassador Tadeusz Romer; registered in Kobe for New Zealand.
What is known
Danuta Lapacz, wife of Leopold Bluman, received Sugihara transit visa (S visa #515) in Kaunas, Lithuania in 1940.
Where this comes from
"List of persons arriving on route to New Zealand" — the arrival roster for the sailing from Japan, September 1941: 33 typed names, from Dr George Bluman’s own marked-up copy (sent 18 Aug 2026). Bluman’s red ticks mark the passengers he… Named on the list of persons arriving on route to New Zealand, sailing from Japan in 1941. Named on the list as 'Danuta zona' — zona is Polish for wife, not a given name. The register gives her a line of her own under her own surname, Lapacz.