Anszel Szpilman received transit visa no. 987 at the Japanese consulate in Kaunas on 3 August 1940. Aged 23 in 1940.
What the register records
Nationality as recorded
Polnisch
Age in 1940
23
What is known
This document is a Dutch Curaçao/Suriname transit visa (No. 987) issued in Kaunas on 24 July 1940, later endorsed with a Japanese transit visa stamped by Chiune Sugihara, Japanese Consul in Kaunas, permitting travel through Japan to the Dutch colonies. No holder's name is visible on this scanned page, and Japanese and Soviet entry stamps also appear, indicating the visa was used to travel via the USSR and Japan.