Benjamin Sztaizel
Visa no. 815 · Kaunas, 2 August 1940
Benjamin Sztaizel received transit visa no. 815 at the Japanese consulate in Kaunas on 2 August 1940. The register records student, aged 26.
What the register records Nationality as recorded Polnisch Age in 1940 26 Occupation Student
The journey Reached Japan; reached Shanghai; registered in Kobe for Venezuela.
Where this comes from List of Refugees, Vilna, 1940 — JDC Archives, New York, collection AR 33/44, file 00876. The contemporary register of Polish Jewish refugees in Lithuania, running to more than nine thousand numbered entries; the fullest independent check… 3694, Warszawa, 1887, from Suiow/Sierpc The Kobe relatives list — refugees at Kobe in 1941 recorded with their relatives abroad. Seventy-six pages in numbered sheets (LIST No. 7, No. 16 and others), each line giving a name, age, birthplace, occupation and citizenship, and then…305, 26, Bedzin, student; aunt Leon Synay Calle Cuenza 1391 Buenos Aires A document held in the archive's files
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Benjamin Sztaizel is one of 2,140 people recorded in the surviving register of the transit
visas Chiune Sugihara issued at the Japanese consulate in Kaunas, Lithuania, in 1940.
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