Aron Weksler received transit visa no. 565 at the Japanese consulate in Kaunas on 31 July 1940. Aged 50 in 1940.
What the register records
Nationality as recorded
Polnisch
Age in 1940
50
Family, per the Kitade-Bluman list
uncle of #566
What is known
Aron Weksler of Białystok, Poland, held a Safe Conduct Pass bearing visas for travel from Lithuania to Curaçao with transit through Japan. The document was endorsed by Japanese Consul Chiune Sugihara (with original signature) and Acting Dutch Consul Jan Zwartendijk (with endorsed stamp and original signature) in Kaunas. This single document allowed the Jewish bearer to escape otherwise certain death in Lithuania.
Aron Weksler of Białystok, Poland held a Safe Conduct Pass bearing a Japanese transit visa issued by Chiune Sugihara and a Curaçao visa endorsed by Acting Dutch Consul Jan Zwartendijk in Kaunas, Lithuania. The document, which included a Polish citizenship paper issued by the Polish Interests Section of the British Legation and signed by Sir Thomas Preston, allowed travel from Lithuania to Curaçao with transit through Japan. It bears dates of 14 December 1939, 30 July 1940, and 31 July 1940.
Aron Weksler of Bialystok, Poland held a Safe Conduct Pass bearing a Curacao destination visa from Dutch Acting Consul Jan Zwartendijk and a Japanese transit visa from Chiune Sugihara in Kaunas. His Polish citizenship document was issued by the Polish Interests Section of the British Legation in Kaunas, signed by Charge d'Affaires Sir Thomas Preston. The single document allowed the bearer to escape otherwise certain death by traveling from Lithuania through Japan to Curacao.
Where this comes from
Polish Legation at Kaunas — certificate Nr. Jt-292, issued to WEKSLER Aron, born 1890 at Bialystok, married, a technician (technik / technicien), tall, with a long face, black hair and dark eyes. Issued in place of a passport, the printe… The first document this line has ever had. The register gives Aron Weksler, aged 50 when the visa was written on 31 July 1940, and uncle of the person at No. 566. The Legation's certificate gives Weksler Aron born 1890 — fifty in 1940 — born at Bialystok, married, a technician. Surname, given name and year of birth agree, and the year is not derived from the register: the certificate states it outright.