The numbered list of Chiune Sugihara's visas compiled by Akira Kitade and Professor George Bluman is the spine of this archive: it is cited on every register page, and most of what the archive has found was findable only because that work had been done first. A list of 2,140 lines read from damaged consular handwriting will contain errors, and this page states openly every place where a document or a family has led the archive to a different reading, rather than overwriting a cited source in silence. Each line carries its evidence and where it stands with the compilers.
A running ledger, kept as the divergences are found · status: open, sent, accepted or refused
| No. | The compilation says | The archive finds | Evidence | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1760 | brother of #1762, plus two family members | Perla was his WIFE. Dawid was his brother, and is not on the register at all | Jan M. Gronski, a relative, 4 Sep 2026; and a February 1947 list of liberated former persecutees entering "KERSZENCWAJG, Chaim / wife: Perla", with "KIRSZENCWAJG, Dawid M." separately and with no wife | OPEN |
| 1762 | sister of #1760 | Wife of No. 1760. After Chaim died she married his brother Dawid | as above | OPEN |
Why it matters beyond two lines: the compilation's sibling reading never explained why his birthplace is recorded as Warsaw and hers as Łódź. A marriage does. The archive had published the sibling relationship and repeated it in a letter to the family before the correction came back.
| No. | Finding | Status |
|---|---|---|
| 1951 / 176 | Not among his thirty-nine marked duplicate pairs, but the same man: both aged 37, both tailors, both born Radzymin, both on JEWCOM line 304. Put to him 31 Aug 2026 | ACCEPTED — he confirmed 1 Sep 2026 and will correct it in the next posting on his website. He asked that it be treated as his numbering, not the register's |
| No. | Field | Compilation | Archive / other source | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1303 | age | 35 (Kitade–Bluman, 11 Jun 2019 alphabetised list) | 34 in this archive's own record | OPEN — trivial, but one of them is a mistranscription and it is checkable |
| 459 | next destination | Canada/USA (same 2019 list) | USA in this archive | OPEN — the family passport's own amendment reads "to Canada, England", so Canada belongs in the record somewhere and this archive is the one that has dropped it |
These are not errors in the compilation. They are places where the archive reads the consular handwriting differently, and both readings are recorded on the page.
| No. | Compilation reads | Other readings | Note |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2093 | Hafftka Ola — correct | This archive and USHMM both read Haftka Hela | The compilation was right and the archive was wrong. Corrected 4 Sep 2026 at the daughter's word; two wartime Kobe documents also read Ola. Worth recording the other way round, so the ledger does not become one-sided |
| 805 | issue date 2 August 1940 | The visa itself is stamped 1940 VIII. 5. | Not a transcription error: the list was sent from Prague in February 1941, six months after the fact. The stamp is the contemporaneous record. Recorded on the page, unreconciled |
him 31 Aug 2026 as a question rather than a correction — the archive's reading is that both are true in sequence, Burma in 1941 and onward after Rangoon fell. No answer yet.
Changes the archive has made to the ages, names and family notes it took from the compilation, each with its date; the reasoning is on the record concerned and in the corrections log.
Professor Bluman's lists are at his own page. A divergence recorded here is a question put to the compilers, not a verdict on their work.