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Chiune Sugihara
Chiune "Sempo" Sugihara
January 1, 1900 – July 31, 1986Who is Chiune Sugihara?
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Chiune Sugihara, a Japanese diplomat serving as consul in Kaunas, Lithuania during World War II, he helped rescue some 6,000 desperate Jewish refugees fleeing annihilation by the Nazis by defying his own government and issuing transit visas through Japan.
Those saved directly by these “visas for life” along with their descendants number in the hundreds of thousands living in countries throughout the world.
Sugihara is nicknamed Sempo from an alternative reading of his given name.
Sugihara’s Story
Sugihara arrives in LithuaniaChiune Sugihara, a young diplomat in the Japanese Foreign Ministry, was appointed consul to Lithuania in August 1939.
Sugihara had previously served in Harbin, China (where he played an instrumental role in negotiations with the Soviet Union over the purchase of a major railway) and Helsinki, Finland. He was now charged with opening the J
