"SUGIHARA'S LIST" : NAME INDEX WITH LINE NUMBER : USHMM REGISTRY SH0119 / indexed by the Registry of Holocaust Survivors, United States (ID: 29648)
Authorship or Source:
Benjamin and Vladka Meed Registry of Jewish Holocaust Survivors.
Year:
[1999?]
Title or Main Description:
"SUGIHARA'S LIST" : NAME INDEX WITH LINE NUMBER : USHMM REGISTRY SH0119 / indexed by the Registry of Holocaust Survivors, United States Holocaust Memorial Museum.
Place Published or Holding Institution:
Washington, D.C. : Registry of Holocaust Survivors, United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Description:
- 12, [32] leaves ; 29 cm.
- Number of Names or Other Entries-- 2,140 Names.
Type of Work:
Spiral-bound booklet (also available as computer files)
Alternate or Series Title:
- Listing of 2,140 Jews who received transit visas from Sempo Sugihara, Japanese Consul General in Kovno (Kaunas), Lithuania, during August 1940.
- Sugihara's list.
- Sugihara Database.
Museum or Other Institution Holdings:
- Survivors Registry Collection: Document File SH0119 [photocopy], spiral-bound 2nd copy also in 2nd Floor Public Reference Area.
- USHMM Library: Names Lists-Lithuania DS135.L5 S84 1999.
Provenance:
- Original document held by the Diplomatic Records Office of the Foreign Ministry, Tokyo.
- A photocopy of this document was received as a gift by the Survivors Registry courtesy of Dr. Hillel Levine, Center for Judaic Studies, Boston University.
Keywords:
- Holocaust survivors --Lithuania --Kaunas --Registers.
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) --Lithuania.
- Jews, Lithuanian --Japan --Registers.
- Jews, Polish --Japan --Registers.
- Jews, Polish --Lithuania --Kaunas --Registers.
- Jews --Lithuania --Kaunas --Registers.
- Refugees, Jewish --Japan --Registers.
- Refugees, Jewish --Lithuania --Kaunas --Registers.
- Sugihara, Chiune, 1900-1986.
- World War, 1939-1945 --Jews --Rescue --Lithuania --Registers.
- [Additional Geographic Keywords: Baltic States, Kauen, Kovno, Kowno, Kovnah]
Abstract:
Contains a facsimile of a non-alphabetical document listing of 2,140 Jews who received transit visas from Chiune Sugihara, Japanese Consul General in Kovno (Kaunas), Lithuania, during August 1940 bound together with a name index to same prepared by the Registry of Holocaust Survivors. Entries include nationality, surname, forename, visa type and date. Over 90% of those listed were of Polish nationality (5% were Lithuanian; 2% German; 1% Czech; 1% others).
Language and Other Notes:
- Text in English and Japanese.
- Cover title.
- Formerly cataloged under the title: Listing of 2,140 Jews who received transit visas from Sempo Sugihara, Japanese Consul General in Kovno (Kaunas), Lithuania, during August 1940.
- A database similar in scope to this item's name index is also available on the Internet at http://www.jewishgen.org/databases/Lithuania/sugihara.htm (Last Accessed: 15 May 2014).
- Data compiled from this source is included in the "Holocaust Survivors and Victims Database--List Search" online system specifically at http://masterwww.ushmm.org/online/hsv/person_advance_search.php?SourceId=20647 as the data set titled: "Sugihara Database."
Location of Electronic or Internet File:
Resource Center Cataloging Notes:
- The ASCII-format and other electronic files used to produce this booklet are also accessible by authorized Survivors Registry staff only in the USHMM Computer Network folder at S:\DATA\REGLISTS\SH0119 (Last Accessed: 4 January 2006).
- Former Q&A Name Lists Database File Number-- SH0119.