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by Chiune Sugihara (杉原
千畝 Sugihara Chiune) [PHOTO SOURCE: http://goodmenproject.com/good-feed-blog/chiune-sugihara-on-doing-what-is-right/]
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Chiune Sugihara (杉原 千畝
Sugihara Chiune)
[PHOTO SOURCE: http://www.visasforlife.org/sugihara.html]
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“Do what is right because it is right, and
leave it alone.”
AUTHOR: Chiune
Sugihara (杉原 千畝 Sugihara Chiune, 1 January 1900 –
31 July 1986) was a Japanese diplomat who served as Vice-Consul for the Empire
of Japan in Lithuania. During World War II, he helped several thousand Jews
leave the country by issuing transit visas to Jewish refugees so that they
could travel to Japan. Most of the Jews who escaped were refugees from
German-occupied Poland and residents of Lithuania. Sugihara wrote travel visas
that facilitated the escape of more than 6,000 Jewish refugees to Japanese
territory, risking his career and his family's lives. Sugihara had told the
refugees to call him "Sempo", the Sino-Japanese reading of the
characters in his first name, discovering it was much easier for Western people
to pronounce. In 1985, Israel honored him as Righteous Among the Nations for
his actions.
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