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.

647 entries · newest first · each links to the record

Where the archive differs from the Kitade–Bluman compilation →

week of 2026-07-20: +1188 people, 761 documents added+1,18820 Julweek of 2026-07-27: +27 people, 180 documents added+2727 Julweek of 2026-08-03: +5 people, 187 documents added+53 Augweek of 2026-08-10: +60 people, 193 documents added+6010 Augweek of 2026-08-17: +147 people, 531 documents added+14717 Augweek of 2026-08-24: +17 people, 362 documents added+1724 Augweek of 2026-08-31: +2 people, 79 documents added+231 Augweek of 2026-09-07: +1 people, 53 documents added+17 Sepweek of 2026-09-14: +89 people, 719 documents added+8914 Sep604 people on the register with no document at all604still 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 604 people who still have nothing at all.
Freshly documented · the archive is growing The full log below ↓
Correction21 Sep 2026
Avram (Abram) Liwer · No. 1026
an internal note naming living relatives (marked not published) sat in a reader-facing field, and the export's note splitter was leaving its tail on A…
Correction21 Sep 2026
Avram (Abram) Liwer · No. 1026
owner's decision of 21 Sep 2026 (strip): editor's-log clauses of 7 Aug 2026 were printing as prose on the page; the Warsaw fact is in the narrative (s…
Correction21 Sep 2026
Chava (Hawa) Liwer · No. 1025
pipeline vocabulary in a reader-facing field (flagged 14 Sep 2026); the fact it recorded (age 48 correct) needs no note
Correction21 Sep 2026
Chava (Hawa) Liwer · No. 1025
owner's decision of 21 Sep 2026 (strip): editor's-log clauses of 7 Aug 2026 were printing as prose on the page; the Warsaw fact is in the narrative (s…
Correction21 Sep 2026
Icchok Melamedowicz · No. 1768
closes a promise left in the note on 23 Aug 2026: No. 22 is summarised on the lists page since 20 Sep; No. 67 is not quoted in Shiraishi (pp. 132-137 …
Correction21 Sep 2026
Melamdowicz family (Leo Melamed) · No. 1768
closes a promise left in the note on 23 Aug 2026: No. 22 is summarised on the lists page since 20 Sep; No. 67 is not quoted in Shiraishi (pp. 132-137 …
Correction21 Sep 2026
a record in the archive
Shiraishi pp. 136-137 read 21 Sep 2026; judge PASS 21 Sep; replaces the '1 August 1940' sentence, whose date is not established.
Correction21 Sep 2026
a record in the archive
Shiraishi pp. 136-137 read 21 Sep 2026; judge PASS 21 Sep; replaces the '1 August 1940' sentence, whose date is not established.

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