Chiune Sugihara. This man saved 6000 Jews. 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.
I know people whose family was saved because of the heroism of this one man.
Wow
Never heard about him. The only one I remember ever hearing about is that lady who hid Anne Frank and her family in that attic. Oh, and that Schindler guy from that movie or something.
i read a special fate when i was really young and it’s always stuck with me, i’m glad people are writing about him again