Bursztyniarz Abram received transit visa no. 1594 at the Japanese consulate in Kaunas on 10 August 1940. The register records rabbinical student - novaredoker yeshiva bialystock, aged 24.
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… Pabst certificate #38, as a candidate. George Bluman (18 Aug 2026) identifies both Bursztynarz spellings on his list as real men — two brothers, 24 and 26, both of the Novaredoker Yeshiva in Bialystok — and the certificate names exactly two, Michel (#37, register No. 1403) and Jankiel (#38). This line is very probably the second brother. The given names differ: the certificate reads Jankiel, the register reads Abram, and that is not resolved.
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 38 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 Jan". A pencilled note beside it gives this register number, which is how the two records are joined.