Borensztajn Rachmil received transit visa no. 1461 at the Japanese consulate in Kaunas on 7 August 1940. The list enters this person twice: the same name is written again at No. 1401, which is how George Bluman's lists record it.
What the register records
Nationality as recorded
Polnisch
Also entered as
No. 1401
Where this comes from
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 1359); one of the register's two Rachmil Borensztajn rows; the consulate ledger likewise holds two Rachmil Borensztejns (entries 1359 and 1160) — the pairs correspond as a set, which row is which man is not yet knowable — approved by the owner's review, 19 Aug 2026 — LEDGER ENTRY READ: Borensztejn Rachmil-Zurych, born 5 April 1913 Warsaw, single; registered 22 September 1941; 912/20 East Seward Road; Tokyo-issued passport of 22 September 1941 — this Rachmil is the one born 1913; the other (entry 1359, Rachmil Moszek) is on a later page. — LEDGER ENTRY READ: Borensztejn Rachmil Moszek, RESTAURATEUR, born 16 April 1910 Gora Kalwaria; 797 Broadway; registered 13 December 1941 on a passport issued by the Shanghai consulate itself (B-141, 4 December 1941). NOTE: the register carries Rachmil Borensztajn twice (Nos. 1401 and 1461).
George Bluman, email to the archive, 28 August 2026 — the compiler of the Chiune Sugihara Lists reads the archive's cross-match of the Polish consulate's Shanghai register against his own files, and marks which of the register numbers he… George Bluman, who compiled the numbered Chiune Sugihara Lists, wrote to the archive on 28 August 2026 that his own files had already recorded this person as having reached Shanghai. The archive came to the same place separately, from the Polish consulate's register of citizens kept in Shanghai. The two records were made independently of each other, years apart, and they agree.