The Sugihara Visa Archive

David Morgenstern

Visa no. 53 · Kaunas, 27 July 1940

David Morgenstern received transit visa no. 53 at the Japanese consulate in Kaunas on 27 July 1940. Aged 38 in 1940.

What the register records

Nationality as recorded
Polnisch
Age in 1940
38
Family, per the Kitade-Bluman list
husband of #50, son Josef (8)

The journey

Reached Japan.

Travelled with, and never given a number

The register recorded visa holders. It did not reliably record the wives and children who travelled on somebody else’s visa, so these people have no entry of their own and cannot be searched for. Where the archive has recovered a name, it is here.

What is known

This is an auction lot page from the Bidspirit portal (Kedem auction house) titled referencing a 'Sugihara Visa.' The page indicates an item related to Chiune Sugihara's visas was being offered at auction, but the retrievable content does not provide specific details about the visa holder, dates, or family story.

A confirmation (Bestätigung) issued by the Travel Bureau of the Lithuanian Tourist Association in Kaunas/Vilnius on 13 September 1940, certifying that Mr. David Morgenstern, together with his wife Malka Taube and son Josef, possessed sufficient documents and visas to travel from Kaunas via Vladivostok-Yokohama-Panama to Central America.

Where this comes from

Open this entry in the full register →