Chiune Sugihara, Japan Diplomat Who Saved 6,000 Jews During Holocaust, Remembered

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Chiune Sugihara, Japan Diplomat Who Saved 6,000 Jews During Holocaust, Remembered




Posted: 01/24/2013 7:15 am EST  |  Updated: 01/26/2013 3:28 pm EST


Most Americans know of Oskar Schindler, the German businessman who saved more than 1,200 lives during the Holocaust by hiring Jews to work in his factories and fought Nazi efforts to remove them.
But fewer know about Chiune Sugihara, the Japanese diplomat who disobeyed his government's orders and issued visas that allowed 6,000 Jews to escape from Nazi-occupied territories via Japan.
On Sunday, as Holocaust survivors and descendants of survivors observe International Holocaust Remembrance Day, a growing and widespread community of Jews -- linked by their gratitude toward Sugihara for saving them or family members -- remembers a man once forgotten.
"Without him, many of the most accomplished minds of our world would not exist today. His legacy produced doctors, bankers, lawyers, authors, politicians, even the first Orthodox Jewish Rhodes Scholar," said Richard Salomon, a board member of the Illinois Holocaust Museum and Education Center. The museum holds artifacts from Sugihara as part of its permanent collection, and will honor him on Sunday along with others who saved Jews during the Holocaust.

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http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/01/24/chiune-sugihara-japanese--jews-holocaust_n_2528666.html

[Enthusiast]

1. This is entirely new for me.

Thanks, formercia.

[Enthusiast]

2. What an extraordinary story!

Maybe they make the movie.

[No Elephants]

3. Wow. And their countries were allies in WWII. Thanks, formercia.

[formercia]

4. Even in Hell, there are Angels

What impressed me is that he came from a mono-cultural Society, where obedience to authority is paramount.

[Divine Discontent]

5. AMAZING! and despite that obedience training, he knew it was wrong to allow people to die who did

nothing wrong, but, it has to be within the person to realize the Jews did nothing wrong, because most people would just go along with what the Nazi narrative about Jews was saying...