Chiune Sugihara

Chiune Sugihara
Chiune Sugihara
杉原千畝
	Sugihara, before 1945
Born	1 January 1900; Kozuchi, Gifu, Japan
Died	31 July 1986 (aged 86); Kamakura, Kanagawa, Japan
Resting place	Kamakura Cemetery
Other names	"Sempo", Sergei Pavlovich Sugihara
Occupation	Vice-consul for the Japanese Empire in Lithuania
Known for	Rescue of 5,558 Jews during the Holocaust
Spouses	Klaudia Semionovna Apollonova (m. 1918; div. 1935); Yukiko Kikuchi (m. 1936);
Children	4
Awards	Order of the Sacred Treasure, 5th Class (1988); Righteous Among the Nations (1984);

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. During the Second World War, Sugihara helped thousands of Jews flee Europe by issuing transit visas to them so that they could travel through Japanese territory, risking his career and the lives of his family.^[2]^[3] The fleeing Jews were refugees from German-occupied Western Poland and Soviet-occupied Eastern Poland, as well as residents of Lithuania.

In 1985, the State of Israel honored Sugihara as one of the Righteous Among the Nations for his actions. He is the only Japanese national to have been so honored.

In Lithuania, 2020 was "The Year of Chiune Sugihara". It has been estimated as many as 100,000 people alive today are the descendants of the recipients of Sugihara visas.^[4]

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^ Mochizuki, Ken; Lee, Dom (1997). Passage to Freedom : The Sugihara Story (1st ed.). New York: Lee & Low Books. Afterword. ISBN 1880000490. OCLC 35565958.
^ Liphshiz, Cnaan (23 May 2019). "Holocaust hero Chiune Sugihara's son sets record straight on his father's story". Times of Israel. Retrieved 25 April 2020.

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[3] Mochizuki, Ken; Lee, Dom (1997). Passage to Freedom : The Sugihara Story (1st ed.). New York: Lee & Low Books. Afterword. ISBN 1880000490. OCLC 35565958.

[4] Liphshiz, Cnaan (23 May 2019). "Holocaust hero Chiune Sugihara's son sets record straight on his father's story". Times of Israel. Retrieved 25 April 2020.

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