eretzyisrael: Great story of a righteous man: Chiune Sugihara, who saved 6,000 Jews from the Holocau
eretzyisrael:Great story of a righteous man: Chiune Sugihara, who saved 6,000 Jews from the Holocaust. He was a Japanese diplomat in Lithuania. When the Nazis began rounding up Jews, Sugihara risked his life to start issuing unlawful travel visas to Jews.He hand-wrote them 18 hrs a day. The day his consulate closed and he had to evacuate, witnesses claim he was STILL writing visas and throwing from the train as he pulled away. He saved 6000 lives.The world didn’t know what he’d done until Israel honored him in 1985, the year before he died. -- source link
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