Open Questions — The Sugihara Visa Archive

Open questions · the work in progress

Help us finish the record

This archive is unfinished by design. Some documents we hold but cannot yet name; some names we have found but not their visa. If you recognise a face, a hand, a family — tell us.

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Documents we cannot yet name

Visas, passports, and permits from Sugihara's mission whose bearer we have not identified. Click to enlarge — if you know who this is, please reach out.

Samuel Soltz — Samuel Soltz
Poland · British Palestine (Israel)
document number 1331 does not match holder name (list No.1331 = Kulik Herc); likely a Zwartendijk/other series number; loose match candidates: No.1721
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Sylvia Smoller — Sylvia Smoller
Lithuania · United States
loose match candidates: No.1973 Oler Laja (0.73), No.1358 Zelcer Lewja (0.64), No.1308 Wisoker Simon (0.62); web evidence: born 1932 Warsaw; one of th
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Ringfarts Kupfer — Ringfarts Kupfer
Lithuania
family-name candidates (stem/anglicization match): No.122 Feiga Kupferblum (0.84), No.125 Ludvik Kupferblum (0.84), No.126 Josef Kupferblum (0.84) | r
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Simon Korentajer — Simon Korentajer
Poland · United States
loose match candidates: No.397 Kohn Majer Szulim (0.69), No.607 Szymon Kalisz (0.67), No.103 Sonja Kerner (0.64); family-name candidates (stem/anglici
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Erazm Übersfeld — Erazm Übersfeld
Curaçao (visa pretext)
loose match candidates: No.756 Anna Zylberfeld (0.62), No.1956 Huberman Efraim (0.60) | reviewed 2026-07-26: Curaçao-formula declaration No.274/211 is
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Ascher Wiener — Ascher Wiener
Polish · Japan (transit / stayed)
loose match candidates: No.399 Aria Wilner (0.73), No.754 Ater Kerner (0.73), No.832 Abram Winer (0.73); family-name candidates (stem/anglicization ma
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Unidentified document #236 — Unidentified document #236
Japan (transit / stayed)
| reviewed 2026-07-25: stamp crop only (1940 VIII 19); no holder identity. Possibly from the same listing as record 237.
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Unidentified document #237 — Unidentified document #237
Japan (transit / stayed)
| reviewed 2026-07-25: stamp crop only (1940 VIII 19); no holder identity. Possibly from the same listing as record 236.
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Mošek-Šmul Cygler-Borenstein — Mošek-Šmul Cygler-Borenstein
Undetermined (nationality indeterminée)
document number 269 does not match holder name (list No.269 = Felicia Munz); likely a Zwartendijk/other series number; loose match candidates: No.1741
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Anszel Wajnhauz — Anszel Wajnhauz
Polish · China (Shanghai)
document number 213 does not match holder name (list No.213 = Genrik Schagrin); likely a Zwartendijk/other series number; loose match candidates: No.1
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Unidentified document #259 — Unidentified document #259
Japan (transit / stayed)
| reviewed 2026-07-25: event photo collage (museum/JICC gathering) showing the same Palestine-route laissez-passer as records 229/301/361/362; no hold
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Bernardas Kaplanas — Bernardas Kaplanas
Lithuania · United States
loose match candidates: No.1174 Hersz Kaplan (0.69), No.1293 Lax Bernard (0.69), No.604 Bodres Kaplan (0.65); family-name candidates (stem/anglicizati
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Unidentified document #294 — Unidentified document #294
Japan (transit / stayed)
| reviewed 2026-07-25: museum display sheet — Zwartendijk Curaçao declaration No.2242 (Kaunas 2 VIII 1940) + Sugihara visa 1940 VIII 2; Lithuanian reg
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Unidentified document #361 — Unidentified document #361
British Palestine (Israel)
| reviewed 2026-07-25: photocopy page of the Palestine-route document family (229/259/301/362): Fukui transit permit 14 Mar 1941, Hyogo entry 28 Mar–2
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Unidentified document #362 — Unidentified document #362
British Palestine (Israel)
| reviewed 2026-07-25: another page of the Palestine-route document family (229/259/301/361): Egyptian Ministry authorization No.1187 (17 Août 1941),
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Unidentified document #369 — Unidentified document #369
| reviewed 2026-07-25: NOT a Sugihara document — Soviet exit visa to Palestine via Odessa + Turkish transit visa No.4039-1475 (Moscow 21.12.1940) for
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Unidentified document #370 — Unidentified document #370
Poland
| reviewed 2026-07-25: gala/event photo — descendant holds photocopy of a Polish citizenship certificate (young man in kippah, red Urząd stamps, 3 Mar
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Lidia-Barbara Fruchs — Lidia-Barbara Fruchs
Poland · Japan (transit / stayed)
| reviewed 2026-07-25: Hyogo 'Permit for Stay in Japan' No.2205 for FRUCHS Lidia-Barbara, 21, Polish student (6 May 1941; surname corrected Fuchs→Fruc
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Ryszard Celmeister (suspect document) — Ryszard Celmeister (suspect document)
Japan (transit / stayed)
| reviewed 2026-07-25: Sugihara visa stamp (1940 VIII 15) on a Polish Zaświadczenie/Certificate for RYSZARD CELMEISTER (b. 12 IX 19..) that also carri
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Unidentified document #409 — Unidentified document #409
British Palestine (Israel)
| reviewed 2026-07-25: visa dated 1940 VIII 31 — AFTER the register's final entry (26 Aug), so off-list issuance; Curaçao destination struck out and h
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Unidentified document #413 — Unidentified document #413
Japan (transit / stayed)
| reviewed 2026-07-25: Tsuruga 'Port of Humanity' museum VISA COPY facsimile (1940 VIII 21); not a specific recipient's document.
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Unidentified document #416 — Unidentified document #416
Poland · United States
| reviewed 2026-07-25: montage crop — Sugihara visa (VIII, Curaçao struck, 'to U.S.A.'), US IMMIGRATION VISA No.3913 Polish quota (1940), Soviet ВИЗА
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Unidentified document #426 — Unidentified document #426
Japan (transit / stayed)
| reviewed 2026-07-25: visa page 1940 VIII 21 + 'Government of Palestine telegram 9/1/41' authorization + British visa stamp — a member of the Palesti
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Unidentified document #431 — Unidentified document #431
Japan (transit / stayed)
| reviewed 2026-07-25: museum display photo of a visa page (1940 VIII, day obscured); no holder name.
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Unidentified document #439 — Unidentified document #439
Japan (transit / stayed)
| reviewed 2026-07-25: small thumbnail of a visa page (1940 VIII 2?); no holder identity extractable.
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Sugihara Chiune — Sugihara Chiune
Japan · Japan (transit / stayed)
loose match candidates: No.929 Sara Chajan (0.67); family-name candidates (stem/anglicization match): No.1271 Cunge Stanislaw (0.72) | reviewed 2026-0
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Unidentified document #479 — Unidentified document #479
Japan (transit / stayed)
| reviewed 2026-07-25: passport series Nr.13909 ℒ/39, visa 1940 VIII 6, Fukui transit 14 Mar 1941, Kanagawa entry permit; holder page not photographed
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Unidentified document #542 — Unidentified document #542
| reviewed 2026-07-25: NOT a personal visa — Sugihara House graphic of Official Letter No.28 (28 Feb 1941, Sugihara in Prague transmitting the Kaunas
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Unidentified document #603 — Unidentified document #603
| reviewed 2026-07-25: historic photo — refugee crowd at the Kaunas consulate fence; no document.
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Unidentified document #610 — Unidentified document #610
Japan (transit / stayed)
| reviewed 2026-07-25: NOT a visa — Western Union telegram, 21 May 1941, from JEWCOM Kobe: American visas refused to emigrants with relatives in Germa
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Witold Pociejewski — Witold Pociejewski
Poland
family-name candidates (stem/anglicization match): No.900 Witold Kinder (1.00), No.1643 Kotlinski Witold (1.00) | reviewed 2026-07-25: non-Jewish Poli
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Unidentified document #628 — Unidentified document #628
Lithuania
| reviewed 2026-07-25: green cloth cover of a LEIDIMAS / SAUF-CONDUIT booklet (web gallery page 0-5); cover only, no holder identity.
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Blumencwajg Joel — Blumencwajg Joel
Latvia · British Palestine (Israel)
| reviewed 2026-07-26: NOT a Sugihara document — Turkish transit visa VIZE No.4848-2136 (T.C. Moscow embassy, 19 Feb 1941) for Latvian national JOEL B
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Unidentified document #654 — Unidentified document #654
Japan (transit / stayed)
| reviewed 2026-07-25: printed group photograph 'Sugihara visa recipients, Kobe, Japan, May 1941' (dated 26 Mai 1941); ~19 unidentified men; no docume
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Unidentified document #658 — Unidentified document #658
| reviewed 2026-07-25: promotional collage ('One Japanese Diplomat. 2,139 Visas. 6,000 Jewish Lives.') with Osako-album portraits and survivor photos;
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Unidentified document #694 — Unidentified document #694
| reviewed 2026-07-25: Chiune Sugihara Square, Jerusalem — memorial photos; not a document.
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Unidentified document #695 — Unidentified document #695
| reviewed 2026-07-25: Osako-album portrait (Yad Vashem Fragments of Memory) — young woman, reverse inscribed and dated 2.IX.40; signature partly legi
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Unidentified document #696 — Unidentified document #696
Bulgaria
| reviewed 2026-07-25: Osako-album portrait — studio Фото Аида, Sofia; reverse in Russian: 'на память от Жени, Токио 5.IV.1941' (from Zhenya, Tokyo 5
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Unidentified document #697 — Unidentified document #697
Japan (transit / stayed)
| reviewed 2026-07-25: Osako-album portrait — reverse in Norwegian: 'Til min venn i Japan' (to my friend in Japan), signature reads Vera …; surname il
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Abraham Aron Krieser — Abraham Aron Krieser
Germany (Leipzig) / Poland · China (Shanghai)
Mir Yeshiva student, b. Leipzig 1 May 1920. Escaped with the entire Mir Yeshiva, which received Sugihara transit visas in Kovno; travelled Vilna → Tra
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Rabbi Yosef Lis — Rabbi Yosef Lis
Poland/Lithuania (Mir Yeshiva) · China (Shanghai)
Related document (not a Sugihara visa itself). Shanghai wartime 'Residence Certificate' of Rabbi Yosef Lis, a Mir Yeshiva student in exile (later a le
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Unidentified holder (passport Nr.13776) — Unidentified holder (passport Nr.13776)
Genuine Sugihara transit visa (Consulat du Japon à Kaunas seal, Transit Visa 24/VII 1940, passport Nr.13776 R/39) photographed lying over pages of the
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Isidor Abraham — Isidor Abraham
Europe (Kaunas)
USHMM Collections — escape/travel documents of Isidor Abraham (Sugihara-mission provenance). | reviewed 2026-07-26: German J-Reisepass Nr.47 of Isidor
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Unidentified holder (Curaçao 1020) — Unidentified holder (Curaçao 1020)
Sugihara transit visa page (Consul du Japon à Kaunas, 1940 VIII 2) with Zwartendijk Curaçao declaration No.1020 (25 VII 1940), Kobe Jewish Association
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Jakub Zalkow (Zalkovitz) — Jakub Zalkow (Zalkovitz)
Lithuanian · Canada
Book 太平洋を渡った杉原ビザ (Gifu Shimbun): Lithuanian passport of Jakub Zalkow (signature reads Zalkovitz; katakana ザルコビシュス/ザルコウ), b. 1908-05-11 (Klaipėda regio
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Named — but not yet on Sugihara's list

People documented with a Sugihara visa whom we have not been able to match to a number on the official 2,139-name list. Open a record to see what we know.

Hiroki Sugihara Adler Ruth · German · Japan (transit / stayed) Ames Lejzor · Japan (transit / stayed) Apfelbaum Gerszel · Polish · Japan (transit / stayed) Ames Margarete · Japan (transit / stayed) Augustynowicz John · U.S.A. · Japan (transit / stayed) Balaz Imrich · Slovaq · Japan (transit / stayed) Baumfeld Emil · Germany · Japan (transit / stayed) Bertisch Mathilde · Germany · Japan (transit / stayed) Birnholc Stanislaw · Poland · Japan (transit / stayed) Braun Betty · Germany · Japan (transit / stayed) Braun Hans · stateless · Japan (transit / stayed) Chomet David · German · Japan (transit / stayed) Cywiner Mordchaj · Polish · Japan (transit / stayed) Docter Hugo · German · Japan (transit / stayed) Eichenkatz Henryk · stateless · Japan (transit / stayed) Epsztejn Zelig · Chili · Japan (transit / stayed) Eulau Abraham · German · Japan (transit / stayed) Federman Szloma · Polish · Japan (transit / stayed) Felsenthal Richard · German · Japan (transit / stayed) Fischer Johann · German · Japan (transit / stayed) Fischer Laura · German · Japan (transit / stayed) Garber Srul · Polish · Japan (transit / stayed) Sonia Reed · United States Masha Leon · Japan (transit / stayed) Mir Yeshiva (approx. 273 students and rabbis) · Poland (town of Mir, then under Soviet occupation; present-day Belarus) · China (Shanghai) Myetek Margolin · Poland Abrasha Sztejn · Poland · Japan (transit / stayed) Leo Hanin · Russian Empire (Vilna) · United States Bergman · Poland · United States Mir Yeshiva (faculty and students) · Poland · China (Shanghai) Berek Winter · Poland Jerry Milrod · Poland George Broenstein · United States Masha Leon (father) Hinda Oler Gutof Sam Fishbain Igo Feldblum Rysak (father of Yvonne Rysak) Solly Ganor · Lithuania · Japan (transit / stayed) Pessla Lewin · Poland (formerly Dutch citizen until 1935 marriage) · Japan (transit / stayed) John G. Stoessinger · Austria · China (Shanghai) Jakow Tunkiel (Yaakov Banai) · Poland · British Palestine (Israel) David Menn · Poland · British Palestine (Israel) Rabbi Chaim Stein (Telshe yeshiva students) · Lithuania · United States Mir Yeshiva students (collective) · Poland · China (Shanghai) Ruth Berkowicz Segal · Poland · United States Ruth Segal · Poland · Japan (transit / stayed) Peter Baruch · Poland (Łódź) · United States Wassertheil family · Poland · United States David Bagley · Japan (transit / stayed) Avraham Tzvi Landa · Polnisch · United States

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