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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.
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