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Who was Chiune Sugihara?
Why was he honoured by Israel as "Righteous Among the Nations"?
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Chiune Sugihara:
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Chiune Sugihara,was Japanese Imperial Consul , the first Japanese diplomat posted in Lithuania. In the absence of clear instructions from his government in Tokyo, Sugihara granted 10-day visas to Japan to hundreds of refugees who held Curaçao destination visas. After issuing some 1800 visas, Sugihara finally received a response to his cables alerting the Foreign Ministry in Tokyo of the situation in Lithuania. The Foreign Ministry reported that individuals with visas headed for the United States and Canada had arrived in Japan without money or final destination visas. In his response, Sugihara admitted to issuing visas to people who had not completed all arrangements for destination visas explaining that Japan was the only transit country available for going in the direction of the United States, and his visas were needed to leave the Soviet Union. By the time the Soviets ordered all diplomatic consulates closed, in late August 1940, Sugihara had saved thousands of Jews over the course of just a few weeks. Because of his efforts, Yad Vashem awarded him the title of “Righteous Among the Nations” in 1984.
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For more information do go through the following links:
about Yad Vashem :
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Righteous_among_the_Nations
about Chiune Sugihara
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http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/Holocaust/sugihara.html
http://www.ushmm.org/research/library/bibliography/?lang=en&content=chiune_sugihara
Chiune Sugihara:
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Chiune Sugihara,was Japanese Imperial Consul , the first Japanese diplomat posted in Lithuania. In the absence of clear instructions from his government in Tokyo, Sugihara granted 10-day visas to Japan to hundreds of refugees who held Curaçao destination visas. After issuing some 1800 visas, Sugihara finally received a response to his cables alerting the Foreign Ministry in Tokyo of the situation in Lithuania. The Foreign Ministry reported that individuals with visas headed for the United States and Canada had arrived in Japan without money or final destination visas. In his response, Sugihara admitted to issuing visas to people who had not completed all arrangements for destination visas explaining that Japan was the only transit country available for going in the direction of the United States, and his visas were needed to leave the Soviet Union. By the time the Soviets ordered all diplomatic consulates closed, in late August 1940, Sugihara had saved thousands of Jews over the course of just a few weeks. Because of his efforts, Yad Vashem awarded him the title of “Righteous Among the Nations” in 1984.
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For more information do go through the following links:
about Yad Vashem :
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Righteous_among_the_Nations
about Chiune Sugihara
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http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/Holocaust/sugihara.html
http://www.ushmm.org/research/library/bibliography/?lang=en&content=chiune_sugihara
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