Honoring the Japanese Diplomat Who Saved Thousands of Jews from Holocaust
Chiune Sugihara defied his own government’s orders by issuing handwritten transit visas in 1940 to more than 6,000 Lithuanian Jews, enabling them to escape Nazi-occupied Europe.
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