Pinchos Szajngarten received transit visa no. 1204 at the Japanese consulate in Kaunas on 6 August 1940. The register records rabbinical student - mir yeshiva, aged 19.
Reached Japan; reached Shanghai; registered in Kobe for USA.
Pinchos Szajngarten received visa No.1204 from Sugihara on 6 August 1940 and lived on as Paul Shain — remembered by his granddaughter for the Nu-Salt he sprinkled at Passover, the pinched cheeks, the crinkle between his eyebrows she now sees in her own children. Her first child was born on 6 August 2020, eighty years to the day after the visa. "I am alive because of Chiune Sugihara. My children are alive because of Chiune Sugihara… there is one feeling that supersedes all others: gratitude."