Tag: Chiune Sugihara
The Sugihara Exclusion: Israel Bites the Hand that Fed Jews
Israeli bureaucrats have denied visas for the son of a righteous gentile to attend a Jerusalem ceremony in his father’s honor.
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.
