Joshua Orlanski (nishri)

Joshua Orlanski (nishri) received transit visa no. 550 at the Japanese consulate in Kaunas on 31 July 1940. Aged 21 in 1940.

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What the register records

Nationality as recorded

Polnisch

Age in 1940

21

Family, per the Kitade-Bluman list

brother of #551

The journey

Destination given in the Kitade-Bluman list: Palestine.

What is known

Joshua Nishri, a recipient of one of Sugihara's visas who later became an Israeli diplomat, succeeded in finding and thanking Sugihara in 1968, after decades in which survivors had tried without success to locate him.

One visa recipient, Joshua Nishri, now an Israeli diplomat, finally succeeds.

Where this comes from

• JewishGen Online Worldwide Burial Registry — Kiryat Shaul cemetery, Tel Aviv (rows drawn from BillionGraves): Yehoshua Nishri, died 5 July 1991
  Yehoshua Nishri, the name the compilation of the register says Joszna Orlanski later took, died on 5 July 1991 aged 71 and is buried in the Kiryat Shaul cemetery in Tel Aviv, in the JewishGen burial registry's rows drawn from BillionGraves, read 18 October 2026. The age gives a birth about 1919 or 1920, as the register's 21 in 1940 does, and the later surname is the one the compilation records; the two together tie the grave to him. A Yehoshua Orlanski who died in 1997 lies in the same cemetery and is not yet placed.
• Sugihara: Conspiracy of Kindness . Interactive Timeline (text-only) | PBS
• Joszna Orlanski / Joshua Nishri — 'visa for life' & presentation ceremony
• Linas Venclauskas (VMU / Sugihara Diplomats for Life Foundation), 'He who saves one life…' — Sugihara essay for the Japan Institute of International Affairs Resource Library, Feb 2024

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