Bursztyniarz Michel

Bursztyniarz Michel received transit visa no. 1403 at the Japanese consulate in Kaunas on 7 August 1940. The register records rabbinical student - novaredoker yeshiva bialystock, aged 26.

What the register records

Nationality as recorded

Polnisch

Age in 1940

26

Occupation

Rabbinical Student - Novaredoker Yeshiva Bialystock

Family, per the Kitade-Bluman list

wife Gerda (16)

The journey

Reached Japan; reached Shanghai; registered in Kobe for USA.

Travelled with, and never given a number

• Gerda — wife, aged 16

The register recorded visa holders. It did not reliably record the wives and children who travelled on somebody else’s visa, so these people have no entry of their own and cannot be searched for. Where the archive has recovered a name, it is here.

Where this comes from

• Mark Halpern correspondence (9 Aug 2026): Netherlands Legation certificate, Tokyo, 18 March 1941 — Minister J.C. Pabst certifies that 74 named persons of Polish nationality "do not need a Netherlands visa in order to proceed to the Nethe…
  Amakusa Maru 74 — Netherlands Legation certificate (Tokyo, 18 Mar 1941), line 37. Cross-referenced by Mark Halpern, researcher (Aug 2026); archive pass concurs. register row reads Bursztyniarz Michel.
• The Shanghai Ledger — register of Polish citizens kept by the Consulate of Poland in Shanghai, 1934-1943 (original at the Archives of the Polish Ministry of Foreign Affairs, ref. 43/2003; digitised by the Library of Congress; indexed as…
  Registered with the Polish Consulate in Shanghai (ledger entry 1361) — the consulate's register of Polish citizens who reached the city, 1934-1943 — LEDGER ENTRY READ: Bursztyniarz vel Abramczyk Michel, RABBI, born 30 July 1913 Ostrow; 121 Macgregor Road; registered 13 December 1941 on a passport issued by the Shanghai consulate itself (B-105, 5 December 1941) — with Jankiel Bursztyniarz vel Abramczyk (student, b. 1916 Ostrow, entry 1362), not in the Kaunas register.
• The list of seventy-four — Netherlands Legation, Tokyo, 18 March 1941. On the Legation's letterhead (Gezantschap der Nederlanden), certifying 'that the undermentioned persons all of Polish nationality do not need a Netherlands visa in or…
  Named at position 37 of seventy-four on the Netherlands Legation's certificate of 18 March 1941 — the list of the people who reached Tsuruga on Sugihara's transit visas without a Curaçao endorsement, were refused permission to land, and whose ship was turned back towards Vladivostok. The Legation typed the name as "Bursztynarz-Abramczyk Michel". A pencilled note beside it gives this register number, which is how the two records are joined.