IN LOVING MEMORY OF CHIUNE SUGIHARA (JANUARY 1, 1900 TO JULY 31, 1986) [MOTIVATIONAL QUOTE]

  

Quote by Chiune Sugihara (杉原 千畝 Sugihara Chiune)

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Chiune Sugihara (杉原 千畝 Sugihara Chiune)

[PHOTO SOURCE: http://www.visasforlife.org/sugihara.html]

“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.