When Tokyo said “No,” he still said “Yes.”
Chiune Sugihara was a quiet Japanese diplomat stationed in Lithuania during World War II. But in 1940, he made a decision that would risk his job, his safety, and even his life just to save strangers.
Jewish refugees fleeing Nazi persecution flooded the gates of his embassy, begging for exit visas to escape through Japan.
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Tokyo ordered him to stop.
Sugihara ignored them.
Day and night, he handwrote visas by the hundreds — even from his train window as he left the city after being recalled. By the time he was done, over 6,000 Jews were saved entire generations that would have died in Europe’s death camps.
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He died almost forgotten in 1986. Today, many know him only as “Japan’s Schindler.”
But we say: He was Chiune Sugihara – the man who obeyed his conscience over command.
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