Jakob Orlanski received transit visa no. 551 at the Japanese consulate in Kaunas on 31 July 1940. Aged 27 in 1940.
What the register records
Nationality as recorded
Polnisch
Age in 1940
27
Family, per the Kitade-Bluman list
brother of #550
The journey
Destination given in the Kitade-Bluman list: Palestine.
Where this comes from
Yad Vashem Archives, Jerusalem — the card file of Jewish refugees from Poland who found refuge in various countries, 1939–1941 Yad Vashem's card file of Jewish refugees from Poland who found refuge in various countries, 1939–1941, has a card for Jakob Orlanski, aged 26, of Warsaw, who was in Wilno during the war; his sister Pola's card is in the same file. The archive attaches it under its rule of 19 September 2026: the card file is a record of the refugees in Wilno, where the road through Sugihara's visas began; the full name occurs once on the register; and the card places the person in Wilno in 1939–41, on the road to Sugihara's visas. Credit: Yad Vashem Archives.