Joshua Orlanski (nishri)
Visa no. 550 · Kaunas, 31 July 1940
Joshua Orlanski (nishri) received transit visa no. 550 at the Japanese consulate in Kaunas on 31 July 1940. Aged 21 in 1940.
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What the register records
- Nationality as recorded
- Polnisch
- Age in 1940
- 21
- Family, per the Kitade-Bluman list
- brother of #551
The journey
Destination given in the Kitade-Bluman list: 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.
One visa recipient, Joshua Nishri, now an Israeli diplomat, finally succeeds.
Where this comes from
- Sugihara: Conspiracy of Kindness . Interactive Timeline (text-only) | PBS
- Joszna Orlanski / Joshua Nishri — 'visa for life' & presentation ceremony
- Linas Venclauskas (VMU / Sugihara Diplomats for Life Foundation), 'He who saves one life…' — Sugihara essay for the Japan Institute of International Affairs Resource Library, Feb 2024
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