Sugihara Visa Archive

1. Relationships

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.

2. Duplicate pairs

3. Field-level divergences

4. Readings, not corrections — two hands on one line of ink

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.

5. Still open with him, not corrections

• Aronsohn. His numbered list gives USA; the Polish embassy column he holds gives Burma. Put to

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.

Dated amendments to the compiled fields

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.

• 2026-08-27 No.1110: 'wife Chana (20)' becomes Chana Steinfeld née KOVENSKI, b. Mir c.1914 — given back by her grandson Yehuda Rubin. Her husband was a Mir yeshiva student; she was from Mir.
• 2026-08-31 No.891: Pauline Waller added as PENDING — deliberately not published until Hie Maru passenger no. 44 is read. The archive has transcribed only 35-43 of a source it already cites.
• 2026-08-31 No.1374: the ledger's bare 'wife Cyla (24)' given her full name from Prof. Leiserowitz — Tsila (Celia) Sackheim, b. Raseiniai 1917.
• 2026-09-15 No. 861 Estera (wife): provenance corrected from 'consular ledger's own family note' to the Bluman–Kitade compiled note; birth Kalisz 1888 added from Vilna line 6131
• 2026-09-15 No. 861 Marceli (child): provenance corrected to the Bluman–Kitade compiled note; birth Łódź 1927 added from Vilna line 6132 (13 in 1940, not the compiled 18)
• 2026-09-15 No. 850 Halina (wife): provenance corrected from 'consular ledger's own family note' to the Bluman–Kitade compiled note
• 2026-09-15 No. 998 Estera (wife): provenance corrected to the Bluman–Kitade compiled note; caveat that the two entries' compiled ages appear crossed
• 2026-09-15 No. 998 Marcel (son): provenance corrected to the Bluman–Kitade compiled note; caveat that the two entries' compiled ages appear crossed
• 2026-09-19 No. 998 given name 'Ignacy / Mikhail' -> 'Ignacy (Michał)' (owner's ruling 19 Sep)
• 2026-09-19 caveat extended: Skotnicki 2021 places the family with No. 861 (dated amendment)
• 2026-09-19 caveat extended: Skotnicki 2021 places the family with No. 861 (dated amendment)

Where the compilation corrected this archive’s reading

The register was photographed page by page and its handwriting read by machine; the reading dropped the first letter, or the first two, of a name on 934 lines — eyland for Weyland, olf chuster for Wolf Schuster. Every one of those readings was repaired against the Kitade–Bluman compilation, and the disputed ones were then checked back against the scan itself. So that the ledger is not one-sided, here is each line as this archive first read it and as the compilation reads it.