Sugihara Visa Archive

命のビザ
How the archive changes

Corrections & additions

Every record here has been changed since it was first published — corrected, identified, matched to Sugihara's register, or added to because new material arrived. The archive keeps the log public: if you told us something was wrong, this is where it is recorded.

620 entries · newest first · each links to the record

week of 2026-07-20: +1189 people, 761 documents added+1,18920 Julweek of 2026-07-27: +27 people, 180 documents added+2727 Julweek of 2026-08-03: +2 people, 187 documents added+23 Augweek of 2026-08-10: +61 people, 193 documents added+6110 Augweek of 2026-08-17: +149 people, 531 documents added+14917 Augweek of 2026-08-24: +17 people, 362 documents added+1724 Augweek of 2026-08-31: +2 people, 79 documents added+231 Aug693 people on the register with no document at all693still to findall 2,140 on the register
What each week added, standing on the week before. The first block is three compiled lists — the Vilna refugee register and the two Kobe lists — loaded the evening this database was built. That was an afternoon of loading, not of research. Every step after it is somebody's week: a marriage record from a grandson, a naturalisation file, a ship's manifest transcribed by a stranger in Boston. The pale block at the end is the 693 people who still have nothing at all.
Freshly documented · the archive is growing The full log below ↓
Correction26 Aug 2026
Scheindel Stein · No. 41
MJH archival masters of accession 1998.197: the leidimas AND the S-64/1/40 certificate itself (1 Feb 1940, widow, b. 21 Mar 1881 Krakow). Identificati…
Correction26 Aug 2026
Jakob Goldin · No. 912
MJH Collections (26 Aug 2026) confirms Jakob/Roza/Isabella Goldin; 'Weinberg' was Isabella's married name; museum notes hold only VAIMAN and WAJMAN sp…
Correction25 Aug 2026
Ludwik Aronsohn (with wife Janka) · No. 181
Jagiellonian University Archive reply (Marcin Danek, 25 Aug 2026) settles the Aronsohn birth-year question by academic chronology: gymnasium completed…
Correction25 Aug 2026
Samuil Manski · No. 1544
Hie Maru voyage dates settled from the ISTG transcription (Kobe 4 May, Yokohama 7 May, Seattle 18 May 1941 — the '18 May 1942' recollection is the rig…
Correction25 Aug 2026
Ascher Wiener (alias Erazm Übersfeld)
NZ arrival roster (source 2060, Bluman's marked-up copy): Wiener Ascher named but NOT red-ticked — Bluman independently does not count him a Sugihara …
Correction24 Aug 2026
Dawid Apotheker · No. 1300
Owner ruling 24 Aug 2026: David Apotheker's record moves from No.1654 to No.1300. Jacob Rosen (24 Aug): the Polish Apotheker never arrived in Kobe or …
Correction23 Aug 2026
Horowitz Mojsze · No. 1678
Owner review 23 Aug 2026: ledger entry 1316 confirmed to No.1678 Horowitz Mojsze (No.458 set aside).
Correction23 Aug 2026
Feder Mowsza · No. 1722
Owner review 23 Aug 2026: ledger entry 1376 confirmed to No.1722 Feder Mowsza (Mowsza = Mojzesz).

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