Szyja Melamed received transit visa no. 859 at the Japanese consulate in Kaunas on 2 August 1940. The register records merchant, aged 34.
Reached Japan; aided by the Polish ambassador Tadeusz Romer; registered in Kobe for USA.
Leo Melamed is described as a 'Sugihara Survivor' interviewed in the documentary, one of the Jewish refugees saved by Chiune Sugihara's transit visas.
A Polish passport (Rzeczpospolita Polska) belonging to a holder signed 'Melamdowicz' bears a Japanese transit visa issued by the Japanese Consulate in Kaunas, Lithuania on 21 August 1940. The visa authorized transit through Japan en route to Curacao and other Netherlands colonies, and an accompanying red Japanese entry stamp records the landing/entry approval (Fukui prefecture).
The image shows a Japanese Consulate transit visa stamp associated with Chiune Sugihara, permitting travel through Japan en route to Curacao and other Dutch colonies. The document bears a Soviet transit visa section and a U.S. immigration visa (No. 513) issued March 29, 1941, in Tokyo, Japan, by Vice Consul David Thomasson, for a person named Melamdovich. It is catalogued here under the name Leo Melamed, who as a child escaped with his family via the Sugihara route.