Chiune Sugihara
Diplomat, Politician
1900 – 1986
Who was Chiune Sugihara?
Chiune Sugihara was a Japanese diplomat who served as Vice-Consul for the Empire of Japan in Lithuania. During World War II, he helped several thousand Jews leave the country by issuing transit visas to Jewish refugees so that they could travel to Japan. Most of the Jews who escaped were refugees from German-occupied Poland and residents of Lithuania. Sugihara wrote travel visas that facilitated the escape of more than 6,000 Jewish refugees to Japanese territory, risking his career and his family's lives. Sugihara had told the refugees to call him "Sempo", the Sino-Japanese reading of the characters in his first name, discovering it was much easier for Western people to pronounce. In 1985, Israel honored him as Righteous Among the Nations for his actions.
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- Born
- Jan 1, 1900
Yaotsu - Also known as
- Pavlo Sergeivich Sugihara
- Parents
- Spouses
- Klaudia Semionova Apollonova
(1919 - 1935) - Yukiko Kikuchi
(1935 - 1986)
- Klaudia Semionova Apollonova
- Children
- Nationality
- Japan
- Profession
- Education
- Waseda University
- Lived in
- Gifu Prefecture
- Died
- Jul 31, 1986
Fujisawa
Submitted
on July 23, 2013
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