Goldberg Boruch received transit visa no. 1601 at the Japanese consulate in Kaunas on 10 August 1940. The register records printer, aged 30.
What the register records
Nationality as recorded
Polnisch
Age in 1940
30
Occupation
Printer
Family, per the Kitade-Bluman list
wife Rosalie
The journey
Reached Japan; reached Shanghai; registered in Kobe for USA.
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 18. Cross-referenced by Mark Halpern, researcher (Aug 2026); archive pass concurs.
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 18 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 "Goldberg Boruch Icko". A pencilled note beside it gives this register number, which is how the two records are joined.