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Chiune Sugihara (杉原 千畝, Sugihara Chiune, 1 January 1900 – 31 July 1986) [1] was a Japanese diplomat who served as vice-consul for the Japanese Empire in Kaunas, Lithuania.
Chiune (Sempo) Sugihara was the first Japanese diplomat posted to Lithuania. In the summer of 1940, when refugees came to him with bogus visas for Curacao and other Dutch possessions in America, Sugihara decided to facilitate their escape from war-torn Europe by granting 1,800 transit visas.
On October 4, 1984, Yad Vashem recognized Chiune-Sempo Sugihara as Righteous Among the Nations. Supported By: Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany
Chiune Sugihara had barely settled down in his new post when Nazi armies invaded Poland, and a wave of Jewish refugees streamed into Lithuania. They brought with them chilling tales of German atrocities against the Jewish population.
Who Was Chiune Sugihara? > Interactive Timeline of Sugihara's life. Born January 1, 1900, in rural Japan, Chiune Sugihara lived during a period of extraordinary change in his home country.
Jan 27, 2021 · Chiune Sugihara was told by his superiors not to help Jews fleeing the Holocaust in 1940. He rescued them anyway because, he decided, "this would be the right thing to do."
Sep 15, 2021 · The Chiune Sugihara Sempo Museum in Tokyo celebrates the memory and legacy of the diplomat in wartime Europe whose bold actions saved the lives of thousands of Jewish refugees from slaughter by the Nazis.
Feb 22, 2021 · Who is Chiune Sugihara? 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.
A 90-minute historical documentary that tells the remarkable story of Chiune Sugihara and the Jewish refugees that he helped to save.
August 1940 – In November 1939, Chiune Sugihara, a Japanese diplomat, opened a consulate in Kovno, Lithuania. In June 1940, the Soviet Union invaded Lithuania and ordered all consulates to close by the end of August. On July 27, Sugihara saw hundreds of people waiting outside the consulate.
