Schenker Oskar
Visa no. 1321 · Kaunas, 6 August 1940
Schenker Oskar received transit visa no. 1321 at the Japanese consulate in Kaunas on 6 August 1940. The list enters this person twice: the same name is written again at No. 476, which is how George Bluman's lists record it.
What the register records Nationality as recorded Polnisch Also entered as No. 476
Where this comes from Library and Archives Canada, Tadeusz Romer fonds, MG 31 D 68, reel C-10451, frame 349, via Canadiana Heritage — Romer's private letter ('Mój Drogi'), Tokyo 5 March 1941, sent by air mail from San Francisco with the group of Polish citize… The register carries Oskar Schenker twice (Nos. 476 and 1321); Romer's letter of 5 March 1941 (reel C-10451 frame 349) names one Dr. Oskar Schenker, district judge from Malopolska, leaving Japan for Los Angeles on the Tatuta Maru — which row is his is not settled. "California, Los Angeles, Passenger Lists, 1907-1948", FamilySearch — index entry for Oskar Schenker, 1941: born about 1901, Poland. Digitised from NARA microfilm publication M1764 (passenger lists of vessels arriving at Los Angeles). Re… FamilySearch's index of the Los Angeles passenger lists, read by the archive on 20 September 2026, has Oskar Schenker, born about 1901 in Poland, arriving at Los Angeles in 1941. The register has no age for the line. A lead only: the register carries 2 lines of this name, and the index entry cannot be assigned to one of them without the manifest sheet.
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Schenker Oskar 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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