The Sugihara Visa Archive

Lejzer Lewinsztejn

Visa no. 663 · Kaunas, 1 August 1940

Lejzer Lewinsztejn received transit visa no. 663 at the Japanese consulate in Kaunas on 1 August 1940. Aged 47 in 1940.

What the register records

Nationality as recorded
Lithuanien
Age in 1940
47

The journey

Reached Japan; registered in Kobe for USA.

What is known

The image shows a passport page bearing Chiune Sugihara's handwritten Japanese transit visa stamp, amended to read 'Seen for the journey to U.S.A. through Japan, Consul du Japon \u00e0 Kaunas,' dated 1 August 1940. Alongside it is a Soviet exit/transit visa (No. 104652) issued to Lejzer Lewinsztejn, authorizing him to cross the USSR border at Vladivostok within a limited number of days. Together the two visas illustrate the escape route many Jewish refugees took from Lithuania across Siberia to Japan and onward to the United States.

Where this comes from

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