Joshua Orlanski (nishri)

Joshua Orlanski (nishri) received transit visa no. 550 at the Japanese consulate in Kaunas on 31 July 1940. Aged 21 in 1940.

What the register records

Nationality as recorded

Polnisch

Age in 1940

21

Family, per the Kitade-Bluman list

brother of #551

The journey

Registered in Kobe for Palestine.

What is known

Joshua Nishri, a recipient of one of Sugihara's visas who later became an Israeli diplomat, succeeded in finding and thanking Sugihara in 1968, after decades in which survivors had tried without success to locate him.

Where this comes from

• Sugihara: Conspiracy of Kindness . Interactive Timeline (text-only) | PBS
• Joszna Orlanski / Joshua Nishri — 'visa for life' & presentation ceremony
• Jewish Partisan Educational Foundation resource: the VENCLAUSKAS family history (Lithuanian rescuers, Šiauliai) — contextual reference on Lithuanian rescue