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Japanese Schindler

Chiuna Sugihara: The Japanese diplomat who proved 'even one person can change the world'

Even 125 years after his birth, Japanese diplomat Chiuna Sugihara, who saved thousands of people during the Holocaust, is far from forgotten.

|ByALEX WINSTON
CHIUNE SUGIHARA, the 'Japanese Schindler.'
Knesset Member Zvi Hauser honors Japanese righteous gentiles who saved lives in Holocaust, 2022.

Knesset honors Japanese righteous gentiles who saved lives in Holocaust

Last week marked the International Holocaust Memorial Day.

|ByGIL HOFFMAN
Japanese diplomat Sugihara Chiune, known as "Japanese Oskar Schindler."

Evidence of ‘Second Japanese Schindler’ found in US

Saburo Nei (1902-92), who was Japan's acting consul-general in Vladivostok, is believed to have granted visas to Jews during the war.

|ByCODY LEVINE
Nobuki Sugihara, son of Japanese diplomat, Chiune Sugihara (depicted in black and white picture), who helped saved thousands of Lithuanian Jews in World War 2, speaks during a street-naming ceremony in honour of his father in Netanya, Israel June 7, 2016.

Son of 'Japanese Schindler' dedicates memorial in Jerusalem

Roughly 6,000 Jews were saved by Chiune Sugihara, Japanese ambassador to Lithuania in 1940, who granted them visas to travel to Japan and escape the Nazis.

|ByZACK EVANS