Szoel-Leopold Bluman received transit visa no. 516 at the Japanese consulate in Kaunas on 31 July 1940. Aged 35 in 1940.
What the register records
Nationality as recorded
Polnisch
Age in 1940
35
Family, per the Kitade-Bluman list
husband ff #515
The journey
Reached Japan; aided by the Polish ambassador Tadeusz Romer; registered in Kobe for New Zealand.
What is known
Leopold Bluman, an uncle of George Bluman, received Sugihara transit visa (S visa #516) in Kaunas, Lithuania in 1940, saving him from being murdered as a Polish Jewish refugee.
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 arrival list for New Zealand.